The slow server problem for uninformed customers

Queueing Systems

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 353-370

  Cabral, Fabricio Bandeira ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DO RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Heterogeneous servers; Markovian processes; Multiserver queues; Queues; Slow server; Threshold policy

Indexed keywords

HETEROGENEOUS SERVERS; MARKOVIAN PROCESS; MULTI-SERVER QUEUE; QUEUES; THRESHOLD POLICIES;

QUEUEING THEORY;

EID: 24944591316     PISSN: 02570130     EISSN: 15729443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11134-005-3283-2     Document Type: Article

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