The Poisson Arrival Model

• A Poisson process is a sequence of events ``randomly spaced in time."

• Examples
  • Customers arriving to a bank.

  • Geiger counter clicks

  • Packets arriving to a buffer.

• The rate of a Poisson process is the average number of events per unit time
  (over a long time).

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  using the Poisson process, click here.

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• Properties of a Poisson Process

• Interarrival Times of a Poisson Process