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Queues with delayed feedback

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

Robert D. Foley*
Affiliation:
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Ralph L. Disney*
Affiliation:
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
*
Postal address: Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061, U.S.A.
Postal address: Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061, U.S.A.

Abstract

Queues with delayed feedback have been little studied in queueing theory. Presented here is a rather complete discussion of such problems including queue length processes, busy period processes and several customer flow processes (e.g., departure processes). The case in which the delay mechanism is an M-server queue is studied in detail but it is shown later that many of the results carry over to a more general delay mechanism.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1983 

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