Journal of Applied Mathematics and Stochastic Analysis
Volume 9 (1996), Issue 2, Pages 185-204
doi:10.1155/S1048953396000184
    
    
    Queueing system with passive servers
    
    Byelorussian State University, Department of Applied Mathematics, Minsk, Belarus
    
    
    
    Received 1 January 1995; Revised 1 January 1996
    	
    
       
    Copyright © 1996 Alexander N. Dudin and Valentina I. Klimenok. 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
In this paper the authors introduce systems in which customers are served by 
one active server and a group of passive servers. The calculation of response time 
for such systems is rendered by analyzing a special kind of queueing system in a 
synchronized random environment. For an embedded Markov chain, sufficient 
conditions for the existence of a stationary distribution are proved. A formula 
for the corresponding vector generating function is obtained. It is a matrix analog of the Pollaczek-Khinchin formula and is simultaneously a matrix functional 
equation. A method for solving this equation is proposed.