Polling Systems with Regularly Varying Service and/or Switchover Times.

摘要

The authors consider a polling system consisting of K queues and a single server S who visits the queues in a cyclic order. The polling discipline in each queue is the gated or exhaustive service discipline. The authors investigate the tail behavior of the waiting time distributions at the various queues in the case that at lease one of the service time or switchover time distributions has a regularly varying tail.