| Article ID: | iaor20083451 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 35 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Start Page Number: | 467 |
| End Page Number: | 471 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2007 |
| Journal: | Operations Research Letters |
| Authors: | Wolff Ronald W., Thonemann Ulrich W., Papier Felix |
| Keywords: | batch queues |
We extend a recent article on the convexity of loss probabilities for arbitrary arrival processes with i.i.d. service times to batch arrivals with dependent service times within each batch and to heterogeneous servers. We show that what we call partial batch blocking is required.