| Article ID: | iaor20072105 |
| Country: | Serbia |
| Volume: | 16 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 45 |
| End Page Number: | 53 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2006 |
| Journal: | Yugoslav Journal of Operations Research |
| Authors: | Djellab Natalia V. |
| Keywords: | markov processes, stochastic processes |
In this work, we review the stochastic decomposition for the number of customers in M/G/1 retrial queues with reliable server and server subjected to breakdowns which has been the subject of investigation in the literature. Using the decomposition property of M/G/1 retrial queues with breakdowns that holds under exponential assumption for retrial times as an approximation in the non-exponential case, we consider an approximate solution for the steady-state queue size distribution.