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Excerpt from Scheduling a Two-Station Multiclass Queueing Network in Heavy Traffic The queueing network model can also accomodate machine breakdown and repair. By assuming that the amount of machine busy time between consecutive breakdowns is exponentially distributed, the breakdown and repair can be incorporated into the service time distributions for each customer class; see Harrison [4] for details. The modified rm and sf, are interpreted as the mean and variance of the effective service time of a class k. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.