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In the theory of renewal processes, a part of the mathematical theory of probability, the residual time or the forward recurrence time is the time between any given time and the next epoch of the renewal process under consideration. The residual time is very important in most of the practical applications of renewal processes: * In queueing theory, it determines the remaining time, that a newly arriving customer to a non-empty queue has to wait until being served.〔William J. Stewart, "Probability, Markov Chains, Queues, and Simulation: The Mathematical Basis of Performance Modeling", Princeton University Press, 2011, ISBN 1-4008-3281-0, 9781400832811〕 * In wireless networking, it determines, for example, the remaining lifetime of a wireless link on arrival of a new packet. * In dependability studies, it models the remaining lifetime of a component. * etc. == Formal definition == Consider a renewal process , with ''holding times'' and ''jump times'' (or renewal epochs) , and . The holding times are non-negative, independent, identically distributed random variables and the renewal process is defined as . Then, to a given time , there corresponds uniquely an , such that: : The residual time (or excess time) is given by the time from to the next renewal epoch. : 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Residual time」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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