| Article ID: | iaor19932444 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 44 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Start Page Number: | 271 |
| End Page Number: | 278 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 1993 |
| Journal: | Journal of the Operational Research Society |
| Authors: | Alfa A.S., Yannopoulos E. |
| Keywords: | bulk queues |
The authors present a class of bulk server queueing models encountered in material handling and public transportation systems. Customers arrive according to the Poisson process and server visits form a Markov renewal process. Results for the queue length at steady state are obtained and a numerical example using observed data is presented.