Hello,

I have a question related to queuing theory.

The problem I am working on consists of a single waiting line and multiple service stations. Each station consists of a single employee performing a service.

Based on this, I have applied the M/M/C (Erlang-C model). However I have hit a conundrum.

The demand is not constant over the entire time period, so if I for instance take the average of incoming customers in summer months it will be higher than in winter months.

As for the service times, majority of the time it is fairly constant with some deviation either way, however, it happens that a particular type of customer takes a lot longer to service on average.

Is queueing theory is still applicable in cases where both the Lambda and Mu are not constant throughout the year. How should I go about applying the theory in practice? Should I for example, instead use data from the entire year, use it on monthly? weekly? or even daily basis to calculate the estimates?

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