{"title":"Strategic behavior in a time-limited Markovian polling queue with service rate regeneration","authors":"Yuanyuan Liu, Zhaozeng Yan","doi":"10.1016/j.orl.2024.107236","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper studies a time-limited Markovian polling queueing system with service rate regeneration. When the server moves to a new station, it announces the next station to open based on a given discrete-time Markov chain. We calculate the expected waiting time for customers in each queue, which is shown to be monotonic with respect to their position in the queue. Personal optimal thresholds for the customers are then determined, and an optimal joining strategy is proposed based on these thresholds.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54682,"journal":{"name":"Operations Research Letters","volume":"60 ","pages":"Article 107236"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8000,"publicationDate":"2024-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Operations Research Letters","FirstCategoryId":"91","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016763772400172X","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"OPERATIONS RESEARCH & MANAGEMENT SCIENCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This paper studies a time-limited Markovian polling queueing system with service rate regeneration. When the server moves to a new station, it announces the next station to open based on a given discrete-time Markov chain. We calculate the expected waiting time for customers in each queue, which is shown to be monotonic with respect to their position in the queue. Personal optimal thresholds for the customers are then determined, and an optimal joining strategy is proposed based on these thresholds.
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