Automatic Control and Computer Sciences, vol.40, no.1, pp.26-37, 2006 (Scopus)
In the present study a process (X(t)) of semi-Markovian walk with level constraint s > 0 is investigated. Under extremely weak conditions it is proved that this process is ergodic. Exact formulas are obtained for the first and second moments of the ergodic distribution of the process X(t), in which the random variable ζ1, which describes the discrete interference of events, has third-order Erlangian distribution with parameter λ > 0. Using these results third-order asymptotic expansions for the mathematical expectation and variance of the ergodic distribution of the process X(t) as λ → 0 are obtained. © 2006 by Allerton Press, Inc.