Article ID: | iaor20051171 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 32 |
Issue: | 4 |
Start Page Number: | 364 |
End Page Number: | 373 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2004 |
Journal: | Operations Research Letters |
Authors: | Shin Yang Woo |
Keywords: | markov processes |
We consider a single server queue with disasters where the arrivals of customers and disasters are correlated. When a disaster occurs, it removes all the customers in the system and there requires repair time for the system to be operated normally. The stationary queue length distribution at the embedded points and at an arbitrary time are presented.