Large scale and heavy traffic asymptotics for systems with unreliable servers

Queueing Systems

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 5-24

  Dantzer, J F ^a   Mitrani, I ^b   Robert, Ph ^c  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

Diffusion approximations; Invariant measures; Queues with breakdowns; Scaled processes

Indexed keywords

MARKOV PROCESSES;

ASYMPTOTIC BEHAVIOUR; BREAKDOWNS AND REPAIRS; DIFFUSION APPROXIMATIONS; INVARIANT MEASURE; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; QUEUES WITH BREAKDOWNS; STATIONARY DISTRIBUTION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MARKOV PROCESS;

QUEUEING THEORY;

EID: 0035533035     PISSN: 02570130     EISSN: 15729443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1010807811172     Document Type: Article

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