Analysis of aircraft sortie generation with the use of a fork-join queueing network model

Abstract

This article presents an approximate analytical method for evaluating an aircraft sortie generation process. The process is modeled as a closed network of multiserver queues and fork-join nodes that allow concurrent service activities. The model uses a variation of mean value analysis (MVA) to capture the effect of mean service times, resource levels, and network topology on performance measures including resource utilizations and the overall sortie generation rate. The quality of the analytical approximation is demonstrated through comparison with simulation results. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1 This article is a US Government work and, as such, is in the public domain in the United States of America. Naval Research Logistics 44: 153–164, 1997