This paper considers an infinite-server queue with multiple batch Markovian arrival streams. The service time distribution of customers may be different for different arrival strea...
A facility with front room and back room operations has the option of hiring specialized or, more expensive, cross-trained workers. Assuming stochastic customer arrival and servic...
Daria Terekhov, J. Christopher Beck, Kenneth N. Br...
This paper analyzes a single server queueing system in which service is alternated between two queues and the server requires a (finite) switchover time to switch from one queue ...
In systems where customer service demands are only known probabilistically, there is very little to distinguish between jobs. Therefore, no universal optimum scheduling strategy o...
Sarah Tasneem, Lester Lipsky, Reda A. Ammar, Howar...
In this paper we determine the optimal fraction c of the uplink channel capacity that should be dedicated to the contention channel in a DOCSIS cable network in order to minimize ...