Mean value analysis for polling systems

  • Authors:
  • E. M. Winands;I. J. Adan;G. J. Van Houtum

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Department of Technology Management, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Eindhoven, The Netherlands 5600 MB;Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Eindhoven, The Netherlands 5600 MB;Department of Technology Management, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • Queueing Systems: Theory and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The present paper deals with the problem of calculating mean delays in polling systems with either exhaustive or gated service. We develop a mean value analysis (MVA) to compute these delay figures. The merits of MVA are in its intrinsic simplicity and its intuitively appealing derivation. As a consequence, MVA may be applied, both in an exact and approximate manner, to a large variety of models.