TITLE:
Performance Evaluation of Multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Operating in General Regime with Shortage of Maintenance Facilities
AUTHORS:
Joseph Kreimer
KEYWORDS:
Markov Chain, Performance Effectiveness, Queuing, Real-Time Systems, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Computer and Communications,
Vol.4 No.10,
August
22,
2016
ABSTRACT: We consider a real-world problem of
military intelligence unit equipped with multiple identical unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAV) responsible for several regions (with requests of real-time jobs
arriving from independent sources). We suppose that there are no ample
maintenance facilities, allowing simultaneous treatment of all vehicles if
necessary. Under certain assumptions, these real-time systems can be treated
using a queueing theory methodology and/or as Markov chains. We show how to
compute steady-state probabilities of these systems, their performance effectiveness,
and various performance parameters (for exponentially distributed service and
maintenance times of UAVs, as well as tasks duration and their arrival
pattern).