Estimation for an M/G/ queue with incomplete information
信息不完整时的队列模型估计
We consider the estimation of the arrival rate and holding distribution of a discrete time queue using only information about the size of the queue. Arrivals are not matched to departures so that direct observations of the holding times are not available. We study two estimators, quickly computed moment estimators and maximum likelihood estimators based on an entropy-motivated geometric approximation. This approximation lends the problem a Markovian structure that permits…