In this paper, we consider a discrete-time single-server finite-buffer batch arrival queue in which customers are served in batches according to a general bulk-service rule, that is, at least ‘a’ customers are needed to start a service with a maximum serving capacity of ‘b’ customers. The server takes a (single and multiple) vacation as soon as the queue length falls below ‘a’ at the completion...

With millions of foreign tourists traveling the globe each year, tourism is regarded as largest and most significant industry in world. Mainstream operators with a large volume inexpensive affordable vacations dominate tour operations market. A specialty operator sector coexists mainstream market offers niche products to remain competitive. This study aims determine whether specialized Russian ...

In this paper, a bulk arrival general bulk service queueing model delayed service with restricted vacation policy, variant arrival rate and setup time is considered. The server starts the service only if at least ‘a’ customers are waiting in the queue, and renders the service according to the general bulk service rule with minimum of ‘a’ customers and maximum of ‘b’ customers, then the server w...

This paper presents an analysis for an M/M/1/N queueing system with balking, reneging and server vacations. Arriving customers balk (do not enter) with a probability and renege (leave the queue after entering) according to a negative exponential distribution. It is assumed that the server has a multiple vacation. By using the Markov process method, we first develop the equations of the steady s...

In this paper we generalize known workload decomposition results for Lévy queues with secondary jump inputs and queues with server vacations or service interruptions. Special cases are polling systems with either compound Poisson or more general Lévy inputs. Our main tools are new martingale results, which have been derived in a companion paper.

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 mode...

BACKGROUND Globalization has facilitated the employability of doctors almost anywhere in the world. In recent years, the migration of doctors seems to have increased. However, we lack studies on doctors' migration from developed countries. Because the economic recession experienced by many countries might have affected the migration of doctors, research on this topic is important for the retent...