Optimization of theM/M/1 Queue with Impatient Customers

  • Lee, Eui-Yong (Department of Statistics, Sookmyung Women's University) ;
  • Lim, Kyung-Eun (Department of Statistics, Sookmyung Women's University)
  • Published : 2002.12.01

Abstract

An optimization of the M/M/1 queue with impatient customers is studied. The impatient customer does not enter the system if his or her virtual waiting time exceeds the threshold K > 0. After assigning three costs to the system, a cost proportional to the virtual waiting time, a penalty to each impatient customer, and also a penalty to each unit of the idle period of the server, we show that there exists a threshold K which minimizes the long-run average cost per unit time.

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