| Article ID: | iaor20073141 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 34 |
| Issue: | 6 |
| Start Page Number: | 697 |
| End Page Number: | 705 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2006 |
| Journal: | Operations Research Letters |
| Authors: | Kharoufeh Jeffrey P., Sherman Nathan P. |
| Keywords: | M/M/1 queues, retrial queues |
We analyze an unreliable M/M/1 retrial queue with infinite-capacity orbit and normal queue. Retrial customers do not rejoin the normal queue but repeatedly attempt to access the server at i.i.d. intervals until it is found functioning and idle. We provide stability conditions as well as several stochastic decomposability results.