Server unavailability reduces mean waiting time in some batch service queuing systems.

Ho Woo Lee Dong Il Chung Soon Seok Lee K. C. Chae

Published in: Comput. Oper. Res. (1997)

Keyphrases

queuing systems
single server
special case
parallel machines
queue length
queueing networks
markov chain
service times
priority scheduling
arrival process
heavy traffic
holding cost
queueing model
optimal solution
service requests
state dependent
web services
steady state
service providers
scheduling problem