Specification of Queuing Systems:

To specify a queuing system, one has to provide:

  • Structural Parameters:
    • number of servers.
    • capacity of the queue.
  • Operating Policies:
    • customer classes.
    • scheduling policy / queuing discipline.
    • admission policies.
  • Stochastic Models of Arrivals and Services:
    • distribution of inter-arrival times.
    • distribution of service times.