Question: Consider a single - server workstation where the server experiences preemptive nondestructive outages according to the model that was discussed in class. Jobs arrive with

Consider a single-server workstation where the server experiences preemptive nondestructive outages according to the model that was discussed
in class. Jobs arrive with a rate of 10 jobs per hour and the nominal mean
processing time (i.e., without considering the delays due to the outages) is 5
minutes. The average duration of a single outage is 10 minutes. What is the
maximal rate for the occurrence of the experienced outages that maintains
the stability of the station? Please, express your result in outages per hour.
Remark: As a more general point, it is worth-noticing that the time considered in this analysis is the operational or functional time of the server,
i.e., the time that it is working on jobs, since when it is idle, the counting
process that generates the outages, is stopped.

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