Abstract
We consider an M/G/1 queue with the following form of customer impatience: an arriving customer balks or reneges when its virtual waiting time, i.e., the amount of work seen upon arrival, is larger than a certain random patience time. We consider the number of customers in the system, the maximum workload during a busy period, and the length of a busy period. We also briefly treat the analogous model in which any customer enters the system and leaves at the end of his patience time or at the end of his virtual sojourn time, whichever occurs first.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 207-220 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | Queueing Systems |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Mar 2011 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Acknowledgements The research of O.J. Boxma was done within the framework of the BRICKS project and the European Network of Excellence Euro-NF. D. Perry gratefully acknowledges a visitor grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research NWO. W. Stadje was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
Keywords
- Balking
- Busy period
- Cycle maximum
- Impatience
- Number of customers
- Reneging
- Single-server queue
- Workload
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Statistics and Probability
- Computer Science Applications
- Management Science and Operations Research
- Computational Theory and Mathematics