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On the stability of polling models with multiple servers

Part of: Operations research and management science Special processes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

D. Down
D. Down*
Affiliation:
CWI, Amsterdam
*
∗Postal address: School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA. Email address: ddown@isye.gatech.edu.
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Abstract

The stability of polling models is examined using associated fluid limit models. Examples are presented which generalize existing results in the literature or provide new stability conditions while in both cases providing simple and intuitive proofs of stability. The analysis is performed for both general single server models and specific multiple server models.

Keywords

Polling modelmultiple serversstabilityfluid model

MSC classification

Primary: 60K25: Queueing theory 90B22: Queues and service
Type
Research Papers
Information
Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 35 , Issue 4 , December 1998 , pp. 925 - 935
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1998 

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