Vacancies, service allocation and polling

9.1 Introduction 9.1.1 Organization of the chapter 9.2 The generic control models and main results 9.3 A single queue with service driven vacations 9.4 An arrival-driven vacation model 9.5 Arrival-driven polling model 9.6 The potential vacation times are a renewal process 9.6.1 A single queue 9.6.2 The polling control problem 9.7 1-gated service 9.7.1 A single queue 9.7.2 The case of several queues 9.7.3 Application to an ATM switch