Transient analysis of one-sided L\'evy-driven queues

Abstract

In this paper we analyze the transient behavior of the workload process in a L\'evy input queue. We are interested in the value of the workload process at a random epoch; this epoch is distributed as the sum of independent exponential random variables. We consider both cases of spectrally one-sided L\'evy input processes, for which we succeed in deriving explicit results. As an application we approximate the mean and the Laplace transform of the workload process after a deterministic time.