A polling model is a system of multiple queues accessed by a single server in cyclic order.
Polling models provide performance evaluation criteria for a variety of demand-based …

Since the first paper on polling systems, written by Mack in 1957, a huge number of papers
on this topic has been written. A typical polling system consists of a number of queues …

Queueing systems in which the server works on primary and secondary (vacation)
customers arise in many computer, communication, production and other stochastic …

An important part of a distributed system design is the choice of a load sharing or global
scheduling strategy. A comprehensive literature survey on this topic is presented. We …

Polygonal meshes obtained from acquisition of real-world objects may easily exhibit
topological or geometrical defects, which often prevent subsequent processing and analysis …

This is a survey on polling systems, focussing on the basic single-server multi-queue polling
system in which the server visits the queues in cyclic order. The main goals of the paper …

Asynchronous packet-switched interconnection networks with decentralized control are very
appropriate for multiprocessing and data-flow architectures. The authors present …

For a broad class of polling models the evolution of the system at specific embedded polling
instants is known to constitute a multi-type branching process (MTBP) with immigration. In …

One of the approaches currently pursued to provide an optical network architecture for
supporting the next generation Internet consists of transmitting the Internet protocol (IP) …

The paper presents exact results for the average customer waiting and sojourn times in
Markovian systems comprising a number of finite-capacity queues cyclically attended by …