%0 Book Section %T The distribution of the maximum orbit size of an M/G/1 retrial queue during the busy period publisher Notable Publications, Inc %D 2002 %U 9780966584738 %@ https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/102403 %X In this paper we study the distribution of the maximum orbit size before emptiness in a stable M/G/1 retrial queue. By a recursive scheme, the computation of that distribution is reduced to solving systems of linear equations. %~