Hopmans, A.C.M.; Kleijnen, J.P.C. - In: Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (MATCOM) 21 (1979) 2, pp. 209-220
A network of servers, known as a grading in telecommunication engineering, is simulated in order to estimate the probability of a customer being “blocked”: all servers busy. Since blocking is a very rare event (1‰ to 5% chance), importance sampling was considered for reduction of the...