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A queueing system with vacations after N services

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  • Onno Boxma
  • Dieter Claeys
  • Lennart Gulikers
  • Offer Kella

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This article is devoted to the study of an M/G/1 queue with a particular vacation discipline. The server is due to take a vacation as soon as it has served exactly N customers since the end of the previous vacation. N may be either a constant or a random variable. If the system becomes empty before the server has served N customers, then it stays idle until the next customer arrival. Such a vacation discipline arises, for example, in production systems and in order picking in warehouses. We determine the joint transform of the length of a visit period and the number of customers in the system at the end of that period. We also derive the generating function of the number of customers at a random instant, and the Laplace–Stieltjes transform of the delay of a customer. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 62: 646–658, 2015

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  • Onno Boxma & Dieter Claeys & Lennart Gulikers & Offer Kella, 2015. "A queueing system with vacations after N services," Naval Research Logistics (NRL), John Wiley & Sons, vol. 62(8), pages 646-658, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:navres:v:62:y:2015:i:8:p:646-658
    DOI: 10.1002/nav.21669
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    1. Dieter Claeys & Stijn De Vuyst, 2019. "Discrete-time modified number- and time-limited vacation queues," Queueing Systems: Theory and Applications, Springer, vol. 91(3), pages 297-318, April.

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