Article ID: | iaor2009705 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 47 |
Issue: | 3/4 |
Start Page Number: | 452 |
End Page Number: | 468 |
Publication Date: | Feb 2008 |
Journal: | Mathematical and Computer Modelling |
Authors: | Agarwal Ravi P., Abolnikov Lev, Dshalalow Jewgeni H. |
Keywords: | markov processes |
We analyze a complex stochastic system with a single server who operates in two parallel stations. The server works in station I until the input to station I slows down. Then the server switches to station II processing a queue of jobs there and then returns to station I upon finishing the total work in station II. If during his service in station II the input to station I becomes intense so that the queue of jobs there get alarmingly long, the server begins to process two queues simultaneously. Then, dependent on the situation, the server either continues with the rest of the jobs in station II or returns to station I and rests there until its buffer fills up to a certain level prompting him to resume his service.