Artalejo Rodríguez, Jesús ManuelGómez-Corral, Antonio2023-06-202023-06-202007-01Artalejo, J.R., Economou, A., & Lopez-Herrero, M.J. (2006). Algorithmic approximations for the busy period of the M/M/c retrial queue. European Journal of Operational Research, to appear. Artalejo, J.R. & Falin,G.I.(1996). On the orbit characteristics of the M/G/1 retrial queue. Naval Research Logistics 43: 1147-1161. Artalejo, J.R. & Lopez-Herrero, M.J. (2000). On the busy period of the M/G/1 retrial queue. Naval Research Logistics 47: 115-127. Falin, G.I. & Templeton, J.G.C. (1997). Retrial queues. London: Chapman & Hall. Leonard Kleinrock, Theory, Volume 1, Queueing Systems, Wiley-Interscience, 1975 Lopez-Herrero, M.J. (2006). A maximum entropy approach for the busy period of the M/G/1 retrial queue. Annals of Operations Research 141: 271-281. Tijms, H.C. (2003). A first course in stochastic models. Chichester: Wiley.0269-964810.1017/S0269964807070052https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/49978This work was supported by MEC grant no. MTM2005-01248We consider an M/G/1 retrial queue with finite capacity of the retrial group. We derive the Laplace transform of the busy period using the catastrophe method. This is the key point for the numerical inversion of the density function and the computation of moments. Our results can be used to approach the corresponding descriptors of the M/G/1 queue with infinite retrial group, for which direct analysis seems intractable.engjournal articlehttp://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayFulltext?type=1&fid=600996&jid=PES&volumeId=21&issueId=01&aid=600992http://www.cambridge.org/restricted access519.8Investigación operativa (Matemáticas)1207 Investigación Operativa