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What is Server Vacation

Chapter 136
Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition
Term used when the server is not serving the customers and is performing some secondary job.
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Analysis of Two Phases Queue With Vacations and Breakdowns Under T-Policy
Khalid Alnowibet (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia) and Lotfi Tadj (Fairleigh Dickinson University, Canada)
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 14
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2255-3.ch136
Abstract
The service system considered in this chapter is characterized by an unreliable server. Random breakdowns occur on the server and the repair may not be immediate. We assume the possibility that the server may take a vacation at the end of a given service completion. The server resumes operation according to T-policy to check if enough customers have arrived while he was away. The actual service of any arrival takes place in two consecutive phases. Both service phases are independent of each other. A Markov chain approach is used to obtain the steady state system size probabilities and different performance measures. The optimal value of the threshold level is obtained analytically.
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Chapter 153
Optimal Policy for an Unreliable Service System
Term used when the server is not serving the customers and is performing some secondary job.
Published in Chapter: Optimal Policy for an Unreliable Service System; From: Encyclopedia of Business Analytics and Optimization
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