Comments on: Polling: past, present and perspective

Abstract

In their exposé on the past, present and perspective of the analysis of polling systems, professors Borst and Boxma give a first-hand account on the advancement of this particular research field. As any good historical account, the paper highlights some of the key turning points in the advancement of our current understanding of the dynamics of polling systems. Their paper, however, goes far beyond a classical literature review, as it also emphasises recent developments and points to many open problems. In the first section of this present note, we give some introductory comments on polling systems and queueing systems in general, followed by a discussion of Borst and Boxma’s survey of the past and the present in Sect. 2. Finally, we discuss some of their suggestions for further research in Sect. 3.