Title
A polling model with an autonomous server
Abstract
This paper considers polling systems with an autonomous server that remains at a queue for an exponential amount of time before moving to a next queue incurring a generally distributed switch-over time. The server remains at a queue until the exponential visit time expires, also when the queue becomes empty. If the queue is not empty when the visit time expires, service is preempted upon server departure, and repeated when the server returns to the queue. The paper first presents a necessary and sufficient condition for stability, and subsequently analyzes the joint queue-length distribution via an embedded Markov chain approach. As the autonomous exponential visit times may seem to result in a system that closely resembles a system of independent queues, we explicitly investigate the approximation of our system via a system of independent vacation queues. This approximation is accurate for short visit times only.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1007/s11134-009-9131-z
Queueing Syst.
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Single-server multi-queue system,Time-limited service discipline,Preemptive service,Unreliable server model,60K25,60K37
Journal
62
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
0257-0130
5
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.49
14
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Roland De Haan1624.30
Richard J. Boucherie231137.73
Jan-kees C. W. Van Ommeren3738.53