This paper considers a discrete-time Geo/G/1 queue in a multi-phase service environment,where the system is subject to disastrous breakdowns, causing all present customers to leave the system simultaneously. At a fail...This paper considers a discrete-time Geo/G/1 queue in a multi-phase service environment,where the system is subject to disastrous breakdowns, causing all present customers to leave the system simultaneously. At a failure epoch, the server abandons the service and the system undergoes a repair period. After the system is repaired, it jumps to operative phase i with probability qi, i = 1, 2 ···, n.Using the supplementary variable technique, we obtain the distribution for the stationary queue length at the arbitrary epoch, which are then used for the computation of other performance measures. In addition, we derive the expected length of a cycle time, the generating function of the sojourn time of an arbitrary customer, and the generating function of the server’s working time in a cycle. We also give the relationship between the discrete-time queueing system to its continuous-time counterpart. Finally,some examples and numerical results are presented.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61773014)
文摘This paper considers a discrete-time Geo/G/1 queue in a multi-phase service environment,where the system is subject to disastrous breakdowns, causing all present customers to leave the system simultaneously. At a failure epoch, the server abandons the service and the system undergoes a repair period. After the system is repaired, it jumps to operative phase i with probability qi, i = 1, 2 ···, n.Using the supplementary variable technique, we obtain the distribution for the stationary queue length at the arbitrary epoch, which are then used for the computation of other performance measures. In addition, we derive the expected length of a cycle time, the generating function of the sojourn time of an arbitrary customer, and the generating function of the server’s working time in a cycle. We also give the relationship between the discrete-time queueing system to its continuous-time counterpart. Finally,some examples and numerical results are presented.
