| Article ID: | iaor19983065 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 20 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Start Page Number: | 187 |
| End Page Number: | 194 |
| Publication Date: | May 1997 |
| Journal: | Operations Research Letters |
| Authors: | Altman Eitan, Foss Serguei |
| Keywords: | polling systems |
We consider a polling system on a space with general independent arrival, service and walking times. We present necessary and sufficient conditions for stability, based on drift analysis of both the workload and the residual inter-arrival times within some embedded times called cycles.