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Overlapping time of a virtual customer in time-varying many-server queues

Probability 2022-11-09 v1 Optimization and Control

Abstract

Motivated by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, this paper investigates customers' infection risk by evaluating the overlapping time of a virtual customer with others in queueing systems. Most of the current methodologies focus on characterizing the risk in stationary systems, which may not apply to the more practical time-varying systems. As such, we propose an approximation framework that relies on the fluid limit to compute the expected overlapping time in time-varying queueing systems. Simulation experiments verify the accuracy of our approach.

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@article{arxiv.2211.03962,
  title  = {Overlapping time of a virtual customer in time-varying many-server queues},
  author = {Young Myoung Ko and Jin Xu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.03962},
  year   = {2022}
}