The Z-Transform Applied to a birth-death Process Having Varying birth and death rates

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The analysis of a birth-death process using the z-transform was recently reported for processes hav-ing fixed transition probabilities between states. The current report extends that analysis to proc-esses having transition probabilities that can differ from state to state. It is then shown that the model can be used to study practical queuing and birth-death systems where the arrival, birth, ser-vice and death rates may differ from state to state.

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Markov processes, Birth-death models, Frame synchronization, Queuing systems, Z-transform

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