 
                                                                                | Article ID: | iaor20071509 | 
| Country: | China | 
| Volume: | 14 | 
| Issue: | 4 | 
| Start Page Number: | 64 | 
| End Page Number: | 69 | 
| Publication Date: | Aug 2005 | 
| Journal: | Operational Research and Management Science | 
| Authors: | Yue Dequan, Lu Shengli, Li Jingbo | 
| Keywords: | markov processes | 
In this paper, we analyse the condition for the existence of steady-state distribution in the multi-server repairable queue system. Quasi-birth–death process theory can be used to deal with the state distribution and the multi-server repairable queueing system has been given by the quasi-birth–death process method. In this paper we derive another form of the steady-state condition which has apparent probabilistic significance from the matrix form of the steady-state condition of the queueing system, so we have proved the two different forms of the conditions for the existence of steady-state distribution in the queueing system are consistent.