Vacation Queueing Models Theory and Applications

• Main Authors: Tian, Naishuo (Author), Zhang, Zhe George (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2006.
• Series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, 93
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Production management.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Computer organization.; Computer science > Mathematics.; Mathematical models.; Probabilities.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics.; Mathematics of Computing.; Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks.; Operations Management.

A classical queueing model consists of three parts - arrival process, service process, and queue discipline. However, a vacation queueing model has an additional part - the vacation process which is governed by a vacation policy - that can be characterized by three aspects: 1) vacation start-up rule...

Table of Contents:

• M/G/1 Type Vacation Models: Exhaustive Service
• M/G/1 Type Vacation Models: Nonexhaustive Service
• General-Input Single Server Vacation Models
• Markovian Multiserver Vacation Models
• General-Input Multiserver Vacation Models
• Optimization in Vacation Models
• Applications of Vacation Models
• References.