Estimation of the Performance Measures of a Group of Servers Taking into Account Blocking and Call Repetition before and after Server Occupation
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emergency services; performance evaluation; repeated calls; Markov process; system of state equations; recursive algorithms; truncation of state space;All these keywords.
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