In: Statistics and Probability
A queueing system serves two types of customers. Type 1 customers arrive according to a Poisson process with a mean rate of 5 per hour. Type 2 customers arrive according to a Poisson process at a mean rate of 3 per hour. The system has two servers, both of which serve both types of customer. All service times have exponential distribution with a mean of 10 minutes. Service is provided on a first-come-first-served basis.
a. What is the probability distribution of the time between consecutive arrivals of customers of any type, what is its mean?
b. Assume that when a Type 2 customer arrives, he finds two Type 1 customers being served and no other customers in the system. What is the probability distribution of this Type 2 customer’s waiting time in the queue and its mean?