Analysis of Vacation Fluid <i>M</i>/<i>M</i>/1 Queue in Multi-Phase Random Environment

Abstract

An M/M/1 fluid queue with various vacations is studied in the context of a multi-phase random environment. When the system is in operation (i = 1, 2, …, n), it behaves according to the M/M/1 fluid queue model. However, in any other situation, the system is on vacation, so this leads it to transition into the vacation phase (i = 0). This transition occurs only when there is no data in the system. If the system returns from a vacation and finds it still empty of jobs, it will initiate a new vacation and continue in this pattern until jobs become available in the system, at which point it resumes working. When the vacation phase ends, the probability of the system transitioning to the operational phase is denoted as qi(i = 1, 2, …, n). Subsequently, we derive the stationary probability and analyze the buffer content in relation to the modified Bessel function of the first kind. We utilize the generating function approach and the Laplace–Stieltjes transform to achieve this, enabling us to accomplish our objectives. We provide numerical results to elucidate the overall behavior of the system under consideration.

Keywords

• vacation
• fluid single server queue
• generating functions
• buffer content
• random environment