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The M/G/k loss system with servers subject to breakdown

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

D. Fakinos
D. Fakinos*
Affiliation:
Air Force General Staff, Athens
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∗ Postal address: 45 Trivonianou Street, T. T. 407, Athens, Greece.
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Abstract

This paper studies the equilibrium behaviour of the M/G/k loss system with servers subject to breakdown. Such a system has k servers, whose customers arrive in a Poisson process. They are served if there is an idle server, otherwise they leave and do not return. Each server is subject to breakdown with probability of occurrence depending on the length of the time the server has been busy since his last repair. On a breakdown the customer waits and his service is continued just after the repair of the server. Among other things, a generalization of the Erlang B-formula is given and it is shown that the equilibrium departure process is Poisson. In fact these results are obtained for the more general case where customers may balk and service and repair rates are state dependent.

Keywords

M/G/k LOSS SYSTEMSERVER'S BREAKDOWNEQUILIBRIUM DISTRIBUTIONDEPARTURE PROCESS
Type
Short Communications
Information
Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 20 , Issue 3 , September 1983 , pp. 706 - 712
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1983 

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