Article ID: | iaor20042874 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 30 |
Issue: | 13 |
Start Page Number: | 2003 |
End Page Number: | 2020 |
Publication Date: | Nov 2003 |
Journal: | Computers and Operations Research |
Authors: | Lee Thomas Yew Sing |
Keywords: | vacation models |
We introduce a simple approach for modeling and analyzing a random polling system with infinite servers. We assume that the infinite number of servers is coupled together and they visit the queues as one processing unit. It is assumed that the customer arrival processes at all queues are correlated. Two classes of service disciplines, exhaustive and gated, are considered. We will derive several performance measures of the system. These performance measures include the mean cycle time and the expected delay observed by a customer. For the special case of