| Article ID: | iaor201111929 | 
| Volume: | 218 | 
| Issue: | 8 | 
| Start Page Number: | 4401 | 
| End Page Number: | 4413 | 
| Publication Date: | Dec 2011 | 
| Journal: | Applied Mathematics and Computation | 
| Authors: | Liu Zaiming, Tao Li, Wang Zhizhong | 
| Keywords: | markov processes, simulation | 
Consider a GI/M/1 queue with start‐up period and single working vacation. When the system is in a closed state, an arriving customer leading to a start‐up period, after the start‐up period, the system becomes a normal service state. And during the working vacation period, if there are customers at a service completion instant, the vacation can be interrupted and the server will come back to the normal working level with probability