When Should a Roving Server Be Patient?

DOI10.1287/MNSC.42.3.437MaRDI QIDQ4363578zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mandyam M. Srinivasan, Diwakar Gupta

Publication date 15 December 1997

Published in Management Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.42.3.437

zbMATH Keywords

mean waiting timespatient server modelpolling systemspseudo-conservation lawwaiting time distributions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Queues and service in operations research (90B22)

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