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Polling Models With and Without Switchover Times

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  • S. C. Borst

    (CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

  • O. J. Boxma

    (CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Abstract

We consider two different single-server cyclic polling models: (i) a model with zero switchover times, and (ii) a model with nonzero switchover times, in which the server keeps cycling when the system is empty. For both models we relate the steady-state queue length distribution at a queue to the queue length distributions at server visit beginning and visit completion instants at that queue; as a by-product we obtain a short proof of the Fuhrmann-Cooper decomposition. For the large class of polling systems that allow a multitype branching process interpretation, we expose a strong relation between the queue length, as well as waiting-time, distributions in the two models. The results enable a very efficient numerical computation of the waiting-time moments under different switchover time scenarios.

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  • S. C. Borst & O. J. Boxma, 1997. "Polling Models With and Without Switchover Times," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 45(4), pages 536-543, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:oropre:v:45:y:1997:i:4:p:536-543
    DOI: 10.1287/opre.45.4.536
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