Fluid models for multiserver queues with abandonments

Operations Research

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 37-54

  Whitt, Ward ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Queues, approximations: multiserver queues with abandonment; Queues, multichannel: approximation of non Markovian multichannel queues with customer abandonment

Indexed keywords

QUEUES, APPROXIMATIONS: MULTISERVER QUEUES WITH ABANDONMENT; QUEUES, MULTICHANNEL: APPROXIMATION OF NON-MARKOVIAN MULTICHANNEL QUEUES WITH CUSTOMER ABANDONMENT;

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUEUEING THEORY;

FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 33644523065     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1050.0227     Document Type: Article

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