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The backlog and depletion-time process for M/G/1 vacation models with exhaustive service discipline

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Julian Keilson  and
Ravi Ramaswamy
Julian Keilson*
Affiliation:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ravi Ramaswamy*
Affiliation:
BGS Systems Inc.
*
∗Postal address: The Sloane School, MIT, 50 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02193, USA.
∗∗Postal address: BGS Systems Inc., 128 Technology Center, Waltham, MA 02254–9111, USA. This work was completed when both authors were at the University of Rochester.
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Abstract

The vacation model studied is an M/G/1 queueing system in which the server attends iteratively to ‘secondary' or ‘vacation' tasks at ‘primary' service completion epochs, when the primary queue is exhausted. The time-dependent and steady-state distributions of the backlog process [6] are obtained via their Laplace transforms. With this as a stepping stone, the ergodic distribution of the depletion time [5] is obtained. Two decomposition theorems that are somewhat different in character from those available in the literature [2] are demonstrated. State space methods and simple renewal-theoretic tools are employed.

Keywords

BACKLOG PROCESSDEPLETION TIMESSTATE-SPACE METHODSRENEWAL THEORY
Type
Research Papers
Information
Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , June 1988 , pp. 404 - 412
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1988 

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