We consider the online-list batch scheduling problem. Jobs arrive one by one and have to be assigned upon arrival to a scheduled batch such that the makespan is minimized. Each batch can accommodate up to B jobs. We give a complete classification of the tractability of this online problem.

Motivated by large-scale service systems, we consider an infinite-server queue with batch arrivals, where the service times are dependent within each batch. We allow the arrival rate of batches to be time-varying as well as constant. As regularity conditions, we require that the batch sizes be i.i.d. and independent of the arrival process of batches, and we require that the service times within...

We consider finiteand infinite-capacity queues with discrete-time batch Markovian arrival processes (D-BMAP) under the assumption of the Late Arrival System with Delayed Access as well as the Early Arrival System. Using simple arguments such as the balance equation, “rate in = rate out,” we derive relationships among the stationary queue lengths at arrival, at departure, and at random epochs. S...

We derive the two-dimensional transforms of the transient workload and queue-length distributions in the single-server queue with general service times and a batch Markovian arrival process (BMAP). This arrival process includes the familiar phase-type renewal process and the Markov modulated Poisson process as special cases, and allows correlated interarrival times and batch sizes. Numerical re...

Consider a single server fixed batch service queueing system under multiple vacation with a possibility of negative arrival in which the arrival rate λ follows a Poisson process, the service time follows an exponential distribution with parameter μ. Further we assume a negative arrival rate occur at the rate of ν which follows a Poisson process and the length of time the server in vacation foll...

This paper considers an infinite-server queue with multiple batch Markovian arrival streams. The service time distribution of customers may be different for different arrival streams, and simultaneous batch arrivals from more than one stream are allowed. For this queue, we first derive a system of ordinary differential equations for the time-dependent matrix joint generating function of the num...