A new method for deriving waiting-time approximations for polling systems with renewal arrivals

J.L. Dorsman, R.D. van der Mei, E.M.M. Winands

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Abstract

We study the waiting-time distributions in cyclic polling models with renewal arrivals, general service and switch-over times, and exhaustive service at each of the queues. The assumption of renewal arrivals prohibits an exact analysis and reduces the available analytic results to heavy-traffic asymptotics, limiting results for large switch-over times and large numbers of queues, and some numerical algorithms. Motivated by this, the goal of this paper is to propose a new method for deriving simple closed-form approximations for the complete waiting-time distributions that work well for arbitrary load values. Extensive simulation results show that the approximations are highly accurate over a wide range of parameter settings. Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)318-332
JournalStochastic Models
Volume27
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012

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