POLLING ON A SPACE WITH GENERAL ARRIVAL AND SERVICE TIME DISTRIBUTION

Authors
ALTMAN E FOSS S
Citation
E. Altman et S. Foss, POLLING ON A SPACE WITH GENERAL ARRIVAL AND SERVICE TIME DISTRIBUTION, Operations research letters, 20(4), 1997, pp. 187-194
Citations number
27
Categorie Soggetti
Operatione Research & Management Science","Operatione Research & Management Science
Journal title
Operations research letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
01676377
Volume
20
Issue
4
Year of publication
1997
Pages
187 - 194
Database
ISI
SICI code
0167-6377(1997)20:4<187:POASWG>2.0.ZU;2-M
Abstract
We consider a polling system on a space with general independent arriv al, service and walking times. We present necessary and sufficient con ditions for stability, based on drift analysis of both the workload an d the residual inter-arrival times within some embedded times called c ycles. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.