This is referred to as starvation. Note that an empty queue when the system does not have anything to transmit is not starvation—this is normal. The complication associated with avoiding starvation is ...

To remove an item from a queue, use the POPN, POPC, POPL, or POPO function. As with stacks, you should use the ITEMTYPE and LISTLEN functions to verify the item's type and the list's length before ...

The ConcurrentStack and ConcurrentQueue classes, lock-free and thread-safe implementations of the Stack and Queue classes, build thread safe collections in .Net Topics Spotlight: New Thinking ...