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 …

Reviewed were the mathematical methods that are used to investigate the polling systems
which found wide application in modeling and design of various transport and industrial …

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 …

We present in this chapter a survey on applications of MDPs to communication networks. We
survey both the different application areas in communication networks as well as the …

Consider a polling system with K≥ 1 queues and a single server that visits the queues in a
cyclic order. The polling discipline in each queue is of general gated-type or exhaustive …

This monograph is devoted to the mathematical analysis of polling systems. Over the years,
polling systems have found a wide range of applications in the performance evaluation of …

We present methods for analyzing continuous-time multi-channel queueing systems with
Gated, Exhaustive, or Globally-Gated service regimes, and with Cyclic, Hamiltonian or …

We consider a polling system of N queues Q1,…, QN, cyclically visited by a single server.
Customers arrive at these queues according to independent Poisson processes, requiring …

We show that probability distributions and moments of performance measures in many
polling models can be effectively computed by numerically inverting transforms (generating …

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 …