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The stability of a polling system with exhaustive service and a finite number of users, each with infinite buffers is considered. The arrival process is more general than a Poisson process and the system is not slotted. Stochastic continuity of the stationary distributions, rates of convergence and functional limit theorems for the queue length and waiting time processes have also been proved. The results extend to the gated service discipline.
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Sharma, V. Stability and continuity of polling systems. Queueing Syst 16, 115–137 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01158952
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