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.