Article ID: | iaor20042343 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 30 |
Issue: | 8 |
Start Page Number: | 1233 |
End Page Number: | 1253 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2003 |
Journal: | Computers and Operations Research |
Authors: | Jain Madhu, Singh Poonam |
In this investigation, the loss and delay Markovian queueing system with nopassing is proposed. The customers may balk or renege with certain probability, on finding all servers busy on their arrival. To cope with the balking and reneging behaviour of the customers, there is provision of removable additional servers apart from permanent servers so as to provide the better grade of service at optimal cost operating conditions. The customers are classified into two classes depending upon whether they can wait or are lost when all servers are busy. The customers can also be categorized into two classes from service point of view. Type A customers have zero service time whereas type B customers have exponential service time. The explicit expressions for the average number of customers in the system, the expected waiting time for both types of customers, etc., are derived by using steady-state queue size distribution. Some earlier results are deduced by setting appropriate system parameters. The system behaviour is examined with the help of numerical illustrations by varying different parameters.