Article ID: | iaor19982491 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 43 |
Issue: | 5 |
Start Page Number: | 870 |
End Page Number: | 878 |
Publication Date: | Sep 1995 |
Journal: | Operations Research |
Authors: | Kella Offer, Browne Sid |
Keywords: | stochastic processes |
We study a system with unlimited service potential where all service requests are served in parallel. The entire system itself becomes unavailable for a random period of time at the first instance that the system becomes idle. A queue builds up while the system is unavailable, and then all waiting customers enter the system simultaneously – each to its own processor – when the system becomes available again. All customers who arrive to find the system in operation proceed directly into service. The analysis of this system entails finding the distribution of the