Stability analysis of multiserver discrete-time queueing systems with renewal-type server interruptions

• Published in: Performance evaluation Vol. 68; no. 12; pp. 1261 - 1275
• Main Authors: Morozov, Evsey, Fiems, Dieter, Bruneel, Herwig
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 01.12.2011
• Subjects: Customers; Interruption; Maintenance; Preempting; Queueing theory; Queues; Regenerative processes; Repair time; Server interruptions; Servers; Stability; Stability; Queueing theory; Server interruptions; Regenerative processes

For many queueing systems, the server is not continuously available. Service interruptions may result from repair times after server failures, planned maintenance periods or periods during which customers from other queues are being served. These service interruptions cause an overall performance de...