A discrete-time queueing system with server breakdowns and changes in the repair times

I. Atencia ()

Annals of Operations Research, 2015, vol. 235, issue 1, 37-49

Abstract: We consider a discrete-time queueing system in which the arriving customers can decide to follow a LCFS discipline or to join the queue. Breakdowns can occur with geometrical lifetime and repair times governed by an arbitrary distribution. The repair times can exert changes governed by a geometrical law. We carry out a thorough study of the model deriving analytical results for the stationary distributions. We obtain generating functions of the number of customers in the queue and in the system. We also obtain the generating function of the repair times taking into account possible changes in the remaining repair times. The generating functions of the busy period, sojourn time in the server, sojourn time in the queue as well as some performance measures are also provided. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015

Keywords: Discrete-time; Server breakdowns; Expulsions; Busy period; Sojourn times; 60K25 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/s10479-015-1940-3

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