Service-adaptive multitype repairman problems

Service-adaptive multitype repairman problems

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Article ID: iaor19932133
Country: United States
Volume: 52
Issue: 2
Start Page Number: 459
End Page Number: 470
Publication Date: Apr 1993
Journal: SIAM Journal On Control and Optimization
Authors: , ,
Keywords: control, queues: theory
Abstract:

The classical ‘repairman problem’ is generalized to consider r failure-prone machine types, each type having its own individual failure rate and repair rate. Each failed machine joins its type queue and is repaired by a single server. Several dynamic service priority schemes are considered that approximate first-come first-served, longest-line first, and least-available first situations. A heavy-traffic asymptotic analysis determines approximations to the time-dependent mean and covariance of individual-type queue lengths and shows that the marginal joint distribution of queue lengths is approximately Ornstein-Uhlenbeck. Numerical illustrations of approximation accuracy are provided, as well as suggested applications to computer performance and manufacturing systems analysis.

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