Journal of Applied Mathematics and Stochastic Analysis
Volume 6 (1993), Issue 4, Pages 359-384
doi:10.1155/S1048953393000309
    
    
    A bulk queueing system under N-policy with bilevel service delay discipline and start-up time
    
    1Department of Operations Research, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne 32901, FL, USA
21767 Brookside St. N.E., Palm Bay 32907, FL, USA
    
    
    
    Received 1 June 1993; Revised 1 October 1993
    	
    
       
    Copyright © 1993 David C. R. Muh. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
     
    
    
   
 
Abstract
The author studies the queueing process in a single-server, bulk 
arrival and batch service queueing system with a compound Poisson 
input, bilevel service delay discipline, start-up time, and a fixed 
accumulation level with control operating policy. It is assumed that when 
the queue length falls below a predefined level r(≥1), the system, with 
server capacity R, immediately stops service until the queue length 
reaches or exceeds the second predefined accumulation level N(≥r). 
Two cases, with N≤R and N≥R, are studied.
The author finds explicitly the probability generating function of 
the stationary distribution of the queueing process and gives numerical 
examples.