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

Naval Research Logistics

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 605-611

  Baxter, Laurence A ^a   Harche, Farid ^b   Yechiali, Uri ^c  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Elevator polling; Globally gated; M G 1 queue; Polling system

Indexed keywords

QUEUEING THEORY;

GLOBALLY GATED ELEVATOR POLLING SYSTEM; WAITING TIME VARIABILITY;

LOGISTICS;

EID: 0031235777     PISSN: 0894069X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6750(199709)44:6<605::AID-NAV6>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

References (2)

1. Altman, E., Khamisy, A., and Yechiali, U., "On Elevator Polling with Globally Gated Regime," Queueing Systems, 11, 85-90 (1992).
2. Boxma, O.J., Levy, H., and Yechiali, U., "Cyclic Reservation Schemes for Efficient Operation of Multiple-Queue Single-Server Systems," Annals of Operations Research, 35, 187-208 (1992).