THE WAY I SEE IT
Waiting: a necessary part of life

We are interested in queues in which customers of different classes arrive to a service facility, and where performance targets are specified for each class. The manager of such a queue has the task of implementing a queueing discipline that results in ...

We study the workload (unfinished work) and the waiting time of the queueing system with MAP arrivals under D-policy. The D-policy stipulates that the idle server begin to serve the customers only when the sum of the service times of all waiting ...

We consider a general polling model with N stations. The stations are served exhaustively and in cyclic order. Once a station queue falls empty, the server does not immediately switch to the next station. Rather, it waits at the station for the possible ...