Unintended consequences of optimizing a queue discipline for a service level defined by a percentile of the waiting time

DOI10.1016/J.ORL.2016.10.011MaRDI QIDQ1709983zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Benjamin Legros

Publication date 15 January 2019

Published in Operations Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orl.2016.10.011

zbMATH Keywords

queueing systemsprioritywaiting timestaffingqueue discipline

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Queues and service in operations research (90B22) Queueing theory (aspects of probability theory) (60K25)

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