Author(s)

Joseph Kreimer

Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.

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).

Markov Chain, Performance Effectiveness, Queuing, Real-Time Systems, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Kreimer, J. (2016) Performance Evaluation of Multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Operating in General Regime with Shortage of Maintenance Facilities. Journal of Computer and Communications, 4, 70-78. doi: 10.4236/jcc.2016.410008.