| Article ID: | iaor2004785 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 45 |
| Issue: | 4/5 |
| Start Page Number: | 655 |
| End Page Number: | 664 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2003 |
| Journal: | Computers & Mathematics with Applications |
| Authors: | Tadj L., Tadj C. |
| Keywords: | bulk queues, quorum queues |
We study in this paper the departure process of a bulk service queueing system. The server operates under a minimum batch size strategy. We characterize the departure process through the distribution of the interdeparture times of batches and of customers, the distribution of the number of customers in a batch, and the coefficient of correlation between the interdeparture time of a batch and the number of customers in the batch. A numerical illustration is presented.