| Article ID: | iaor20003137 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 28 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Start Page Number: | 337 |
| End Page Number: | 347 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 1998 |
| Journal: | Queueing Systems |
| Authors: | Righter R., Koole G. |
| Keywords: | tandem queues |
We consider optimal policies for reentrant queues in which customers may be served several times at the same station. We show that for tandem reentrant queues the last-buffer first-served policy stochastically maximizes the departure process.