Queueing systems with vacations—a survey
Queueing Systems: Theory and Applications
Analysis and Application of Polling Models
Performance Evaluation: Origins and Directions
Vacation Queueing Models: Theory and Applications (International Series in Operations Research & Management Science)
Equilibrium customer strategies in a single server Markovian queue with setup times
Queueing Systems: Theory and Applications
Performance Analysis of a Queue with Congestion-Based Staffing Policy
Management Science
Joining Longer Queues: Information Externalities in Queue Choice
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
Equilibrium balking strategies in the observable single-server queue with breakdowns and repairs
Operations Research Letters
Non-cooperative spectrum access: the dedicated vs. free spectrum choice
MobiHoc '11 Proceedings of the Twelfth ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
Equilibrium customer strategies in Markovian queues with partial breakdowns
Computers and Industrial Engineering
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We consider a single server queueing system in which service shuts down when there are no customers present and is resumed only when the queue length reaches a given critical length. We analyze the strategic response of customers to this mechanism and compare it to the overall optimal behavior, with and without information on delay. The results are significantly different from those obtained when the server is continuously available. We show that there may exist multiple equilibria in such a system and the optimal arrival rate may be greater or smaller than that of the decentralized equilibrium. Finally, the critical length is taken as a decision variable, and the optimal operations policy is discussed by taking strategic customers into consideration.