%0 Journal Article %T Analytically Simple and Computationally Efficient Solution to Geo/G/1 and Geo/G/1/N Queues Involving Heavy %A Indra %A Mohan L. Chaudhry %A Vijay Rajan %J Calcutta Statistical Association Bulletin %@ 2456-6462 %D 2018 %R 10.1177/0008068318770566 %X Abstract The previous studies pertaining to the queues Geo/G/1 and Geo/G/1/N involve light-tailed distributions for service time. However, due to applications of heavy-tailed distributions in computer science and financial engineering, these distributions are used for service time. This article provides a simple and computationally efficient solution to the queues Geo/G/1 and Geo/G/1/N involving heavy-tailed distributions for service times %K Discrete-time queues %K heavy-tailed distributions %K finite space %K infinite space %K geometric input %U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0008068318770566