A Multiserver Queueing System with Impatient Customers

  • Authors:
  • Nam Kyoo Boots;Henk Tijms

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Management Science
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

Many real-world situations involve queueing systems in which customers wait for service for a limited time only and leave the system if service has not begun within that time. This paper considers a multiserver queueing system with impatient customers, where the customers arrive according to a Poisson process and the service requirements have a general distribution. A simple and insightful solution is presented for the loss probability. The solution is exact for exponential services and is an excellent heuristic for general service times.