Article ID: | iaor201529985 |
Volume: | 67 |
Issue: | 4 |
Start Page Number: | 63 |
End Page Number: | 74 |
Publication Date: | Mar 2016 |
Journal: | Computers and Operations Research |
Authors: | Li Wei, Luo Chuanyi, Yu Kaizhi, Ding Chuan |
Keywords: | markov processes, queues: theory, matrices |
This paper studies a finite buffer size GeoˆX/G/1/N queue with single working vacation and different input rates. By combining two classic methods of supplementary variable and embedded Markov chain, the matrix-form solutions of queue-length distributions at departure, arbitrary, pre-arrival and outside observer's observation epochs are obtained. Based on these queue-length distributions, some performance measures are also derived and some numerical experiments are carried out. Then, an optimal control on state-dependent operating cost of a production to order is presented.