Search and Rescue Resources Allocation Using the M/E(k)/c Queue.
Abstract
Justification is provided for modelling the arrival and subsequent disposition of distress cases at a Coast Guard Search and Rescue Station as an M/E k/c queue. Numerical tables and a simple computational method are presented which provide convenient and accurate steady state solutions to this system assuming first in first out queue discipline. Specific measures of effectiveness computed include the delay probability, average queue length, average number in system, average waiting time, average time in system, and the distribution of waiting time. Additionally, the consequences of considering a preemptive priority queue discipline with two priority classes are investigated and a method of calculating the delay probability for this priority scheme is proposed. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 1982
- Accession Number
- ADA124589
Entities
People
- Herbert H. Sharpe
Organizations
- Naval Postgraduate School