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A Poisson process of rate is a counting process starting at zero, with independent stationary increments, such that an increment over an interval of length has the Poisson distribution of parameter . It has right-continuous paths with unit jumps almost surely.
Independence of the two processes makes increments of independent on disjoint intervals. The sum of independent Poisson random variables with parameters and is Poisson with parameter , as follows by convolution:Thus is a Poisson process of rate . Its first red and green waiting times are independent exponential random variables of rates , so
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