This note clarifies the concept of regeneration cycle used in evaluating the average operating cost of the M/G/1 queue with T-policy studied in 70s. Two ways of defining the regeneration cycle are compared and advantages and disadvantages of each way are pointed out. In addition, we establish...

A system is subject to shocks that arrive according to a non-homogeneous pure birth process. As shocks occur, the system has two types of failures. Type-I failure (minor failure) is removed by a general repair, whereas type-II failure (catastrophic failure) is removed by an unplanned...