Average waiting time of a symmetric polling system under Bernoulli scheduling

Note: Minimizing the variability of the

Note: Minimizing the variability of the waiting times in a globally gated elevator polling system

✍ Laurence A. Baxter; Farid Harche; Uri Yechiali 📂 Article 📅 1997 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 52 KB

A polling system comprising n queues and a single server is considered. Service is performed according to an elevator scheme under the globally gated regime. The problem of arranging the channels to minimize a measure of the variability of the waiting times is addressed.