Waiting Line Characteristics
Population Characteristics
- Size - infinite or finite
- People or things
- Homogenous or variable
Arrival Characteristics
- Fixed arrival times
- Random distribution - Poisson, normal, other
Behavior of Arrivals
- Always enter line or not - balk
- Stay in line - reneging
- Switch lines
Queue Characteristics
- Length - limited or unlimited
- Single queue versus queues for each facility
- Number of lines - channels
- Existence of special lines
Queue Discipline
Service Facility
- Phases - single or multiple
- Multiple - fixed path or variable
Service Times
- Fixed service time
- Random distribution - negative exponential, normal,
other
- R. S. Kulzick -
2/23/2005 -
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