The combined gated-exhaustive vacation system in discrete time

  • Authors:
  • Dieter Fiems;Stijn De Vuyst;Herwig Bruneel

  • Affiliations:
  • SMACS Research Group, vakgroep TELIN (TW07), Ghent University, St-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, B-9000 Gent, Belgium;SMACS Research Group, vakgroep TELIN (TW07), Ghent University, St-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, B-9000 Gent, Belgium;SMACS Research Group, vakgroep TELIN (TW07), Ghent University, St-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, B-9000 Gent, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • Performance Evaluation
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We consider a discrete-time gated vacation system. The available buffer space is divided into two subsequent queues separated by a gate and new customers arrive either before or after this gate. Whenever all customers after the gate are served, the server takes a vacation. After each vacation, the gate opens which causes all waiting customers to move to the buffer space after the gate. The model under investigation allows to capture performance of a.o. the exhaustive and the gated queueing systems with multiple or single vacations. Using a probability generating functions approach, we obtain expressions for performance measures such as moments of system contents at various epochs in equilibrium and of customer delay. We conclude with a numerical example.