Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1143090 | Operations Research Letters | 2007 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
We extend a recent article on the convexity of loss probabilities for arbitrary arrival processes with i.i.d. service times to batch arrivals with dependent service times within each batch and to heterogeneous servers. We show that what we call partial batch blocking (PBB) is required.
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Authors
Felix Papier, Ronald W. Wolff, Ulrich W. Thonemann,