A retrial inventory system with an unreliable server

DOI10.1504/IJMOR.2017.081924MaRDI QIDQ2204282zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors P. V. Ushakumari

Publication date 15 October 2020

Published in International Journal of Mathematics in Operational Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1504/ijmor.2017.081924

zbMATH Keywords

\((s, S)\) inventory systemscontinuous reviewcustomer waiting timeinfinite capacity orbitinventory managementMarkov processretrial inventory systemsretrial queuesserver breakdownsunreliable servers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inventory, storage, reservoirs (90B05) Reliability, availability, maintenance, inspection in operations research (90B25)

Review text

Summary: In this paper, we analyse an unreliable \((s, S)\) inventory system with infinite capacity orbit. Customers join the retrial orbit if they are interrupted by a server breakdown and repeatedly attempt to access the server at iid intervals until it is found functioning and idle. We provide stability condition and steady state system size probabilities of the underlying stochastic process. Also, we provide several other characteristics of the system like average waiting time of a customer in the orbit, average number of breakdowns of the server, average duration of a failed service, etc. We obtained a total expected cost function which is optimal in both \(s\) and \(S\) and provided some numerical illustration.

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