A heterogeneous two-server network system with balking and a Bernoulli vacation schedule (Q654941)

A two-server Markovian queue with balking and vacations is considered. The (exponential) servers are not equivalent (heterogeneous system). Upon arrival a (Poisson) customer joins the queue with a probability (w. pr.) \(\beta\) if both servers are busy and balks w. pr. \(1-\beta\). After service, only one server may take vacation w. pr. \(p\) or continue to stay in the system (w. pr. \(1-p\)). The motivation comes from some communication networks, where say, real-time traffic of voice or video can not wait for transmission. The authors study a QBD two-dimensional Markovian process: \( (L(t), J(t))\), where \(L(t)\) is the number of customers in the system and \(J(t)\) is the status of the servers, at instant \(t\). Stability condition is given, and the steady-state distribution is obtained in a matrix form. In a special case \(p=0\) (no vacations) it is shown that the steady-state distribution (presented in an explicit form) coincides with that has been found earlier. Numerical results show a difference between the system with vacations \((p>0)\) and the system with no vacations \((p=0)\).