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

✍ Scribed by Laurence A. Baxter; Farid Harche; Uri Yechiali

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1997
Tongue: English
Weight: 52 KB
Volume: 44
Category: Article
ISSN: 0894-069X
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1520-6750(199709)44:6<605::aid-nav6>3.0.co;2-7

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✦ Synopsis

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.