Tag Archives: Queuing Theory

Queuing Theory with Excel - extra

Posted on 02/03/2012 by James Collings

Only a few days ago, I blithly said The Excel formula of 1/(Poisson(,,false)*exp()/() + Poisson(,,true)*exp() - Poisson(,,false)*exp()) Is equal to Now you have the "tricky" value, all other values in the M/M/c queuing theory are MUCH easier to calculate. It … Continue reading →

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Queuing Theory with Excel pt2

Posted on 28/02/2012 by James Collings

The previous blog post showed the formulas that are used in M/M/c queuing models, and finished by showing that we need an Excel formula for if we are going to use Excel to help us. The previous blog entry also … Continue reading →

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Queuing Theory with Excel pt1

Posted on 21/02/2012 by James Collings

Capacity Planning makes extensive use of Queuing theory to predict future response times of a system when the workload increases.  There are many tools available that will automatically calculate the queues and can do multi-variate planning. However, if you have … Continue reading →

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