| Article ID: | iaor20102899 |
| Volume: | 36 |
| Issue: | 6 |
| Start Page Number: | 705 |
| End Page Number: | 709 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2008 |
| Journal: | Operations Research Letters |
| Authors: | He Qi-Ming, Zhao Xiaobo, Xie Jingui |
This paper is concerned with the stability of a preemptive priority queueing system with customer transfers. Conditions for the queueing system to be stable/unstable are found. An interesting result is that the stability/instability conditions are independent of the service rates of lower priority customers and the transfer rates.