“…In several papers [11,16,17] the timeaverage throughput, defined as the expected throughput the 'server' provides to an elastic call at an arbitrary (non-idle) time instant, is applied to approximate the call-average throughput. Many other papers use the ratio of the expected transfer volume and the expected sojourn time as an approximation [1,2,3,4,9,31]. In this paper we introduce the expected instantaneous throughput, i.e.…”