Review Article

Mathematical Analysis of Queue with Phase Service: An Overview

Table 5

Literature on bulk queues with phase service.

ModelsSpecial featuresAuthors Methodology

M/M/1 Bach service, vacation, and additional phase of optional service Kalyanaraman and Murugan [155]Probability generating function
Murugan and Kalyanaraman [156], Sharma [157]

M/G/1Quorum, bulk arrival, optional reserviceTadj and Ke [158]Probability generating function, supplementary variable
Threshold policy, bulk service, and second optional serviceHaridass and Arumuganathan [159]Probability generating function

/G/1Bulk arrival, startup, additional optional serviceKe [160] Probability generating function, Supplementary variable
server breakdown, retrial, batch arrival, Bernoulli admission mechanism, and two-phase of serviceChoudhury and Deka [161]
Retrial queue, bulk arrival, second optional service, Bernoulli vacation, and unreliable serverJain et al. [121]Probability generating function, Supplementary variable, Embedded Markov chain

BMAP/G/1Batch arrival, retrial, and phase of serviceKim et al. [162]Matrix method

MAP/PH/1Batch arrival, -policy, phase serviceKim et al. [163]
Batch arrival, batch service, -policy, and phase service Lenin et al. [164]Newton approximation technique