Article ID: | iaor20131216 |
Volume: | 73 |
Issue: | 3 |
Start Page Number: | 295 |
End Page Number: | 316 |
Publication Date: | Mar 2013 |
Journal: | Queueing Systems |
Authors: | Perry D, Ravid R, Boxma O |
Keywords: | queues: theory |
We consider a repair facility consisting of one repairman and two arrival streams of failed items, from bases 1 and 2. The arrival processes are independent Poisson processes, and the repair times are independent and identically exponentially distributed. The item types are exchangeable, and a failed item from base 1 could just as well be returned to base 2, and vice versa. The rule according to which backorders are satisfied by repaired items is the