Polling on a space with general arrival and service time distribution

  • Authors:
  • Eitan Altman;Serguei Foss

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Operations Research Letters
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

We consider a polling system on a space with general independent arrival, service and walking times. We present necessary and sufficient conditions for stability, based on drift analysis of both the workload and the residual inter-arrival times within some embedded times called cycles.