Designing a Call Center with Impatient Customers
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
Commissioned Paper: Telephone Call Centers: Tutorial, Review, and Research Prospects
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
Dimensioning Large Call Centers
Operations Research
A Diffusion Approximation for the G/GI/n/m Queue
Operations Research
Heavy-Traffic Limits for the G/H2*/n/m Queue
Mathematics of Operations Research
Contact Centers with a Call-Back Option and Real-Time Delay Information
Operations Research
A simple solution for the M/D/c waiting time distribution
Operations Research Letters
Call Centers with Impatient Customers: Many-Server Asymptotics of the M/M/n + G Queue
Queueing Systems: Theory and Applications
Corrected asymptotics for a multi-server queue in the Halfin-Whitt regime
Queueing Systems: Theory and Applications
Heavy-traffic limits for nearly deterministic queues
ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review
Designing a call center with an IVR (Interactive Voice Response)
Queueing Systems: Theory and Applications
Heavy-traffic limits for nearly deterministic queues: stationary distributions
Queueing Systems: Theory and Applications
Refining Square-Root Safety Staffing by Expanding Erlang C
Operations Research
Queues with Many Servers and Impatient Customers
Mathematics of Operations Research
Queueing Systems: Theory and Applications
Fluid models of many-server queues with abandonment
Queueing Systems: Theory and Applications
Mathematics of Operations Research
Scaled control in the QED regime
Performance Evaluation
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Consider a sequence of stationary GI/D/N queues indexed by N↑∞, with servers' utilization 1−β/$\sqrt{N}$, β0. For such queues we show that the scaled waiting times $\sqrt{N}$WN converge to the (finite) supremum of a Gaussian random walk with drift −β. This further implies a corresponding limit for the number of customers in the system, an easily computable non-degenerate limiting delay probability in terms of Spitzer's random-walk identities, and $\sqrt{N}$ rate of convergence for the latter limit. Our asymptotic regime is important for rational dimensioning of large-scale service systems, for example telephone- or internet-based, since it achieves, simultaneously, arbitrarily high service-quality and utilization-efficiency.