Vacation Queueing Models : Theory and Applications

A classical queueing model consists of three parts - arrival process, service process, and queue discipline. However, a vacation queueing model has an additional part - the vacation process which is governed by a vacation policy - and a vacation policy can be characterized by three aspects: 1) vacation start-up rule ; 2) vacation termination rule , and 3) vacation duration distribution . Hence, vacation queueing models are an extension of classical queueing theory. Vacation Queueing Models: Theory and Applications discusses systematically and in detail the many variations of vacation policy. These discussions include: General Service Single Server Vacation Models (Exhaustive and Non-Exhaustive Service Type), General Input Single Server Vacation Models, Markovian Multi-Server Vacation Models, General Input Multi-Server Vacation Models, Optimization in Vacation Models, and Applications of Vacation Models. By allowing servers to take vacations makes the queueing models more realist...