Polling: past, present, and perspective

Sem Borst and Onno Boxma ()
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Sem Borst: Eindhoven University of Technology
Onno Boxma: Eindhoven University of Technology

TOP: An Official Journal of the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research, 2018, vol. 26, issue 3, No 1, 335-369

Abstract: Abstract This is a survey on polling systems, focussing on the basic single-server multi-queue polling system in which the server visits the queues in cyclic order. The main goals of the paper are: (i) to discuss a number of the key methodologies in analyzing polling models; (ii) to give an overview of recent polling developments; and (iii) to present a number of challenging open problems.

Keywords: Queueing theory; Polling system; Joint queue length distribution; Multi-type branching process; 60K25; 90B22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/s11750-018-0484-5

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