%0 Journal Article %A Artalejo Rodríguez, Jesús Manuel %A López Herrero, María Jesús %T The M/G/1 retrial queue: An information theoretic approach %D 2005 %@ 1696-2281 %U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/101881 %X In this paper, we give a survey of the use of information theoretic techniques for the estimation of the main performance characteristics of the M/G/1 retrial queue. We focus on the limiting distribution of the system state, the length of a busy period and the waiting time. Numerical examples are given to illustrate the accuracy of the maximum entropy estimations when they are compared versus the classical solutions. %~