Article ID: | iaor20042879 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 147 |
Issue: | 3 |
Start Page Number: | 511 |
End Page Number: | 521 |
Publication Date: | Jun 2003 |
Journal: | European Journal of Operational Research |
Authors: | Shin Yang Woo |
Keywords: | GI/G/c queues |
We consider a queue with arrival acceptance windows in which multiple customers can enter the system in a window. Each customer is assigned to arrive at the system within a time interval, called acceptance window. A customer who does not arrive at the system within his assigned window cannot be offered the service and is lost. The delay time of a customer is the length of time interval from the epoch at which the window is generated to the actual arrival time of the customer. The delay times of customers are assumed to be independent and exponentially distributed with common parameter υ. There are