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A queueing model with servers disguised as customers

Probability 2023-06-28 v1

Abstract

We propose a new queueing model, motivated by the phenomenon of pseudoprogression in cancer, in which the length of a queue appears to increase initially, before reducing to a steady state. We assume that servers arrive to the queue alongside the customers, i.e. `disguised' as customers. We derive the general equations for this model using matrix analytic methods, and demonstrate its behaviour with numerical simulations.

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@article{arxiv.2306.15653,
  title  = {A queueing model with servers disguised as customers},
  author = {Janhavi Prabhu and Myron Hlynka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.15653},
  year   = {2023}
}

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16 pages, 9 figures

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