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In this paper we analyze of a special kind of M/M/∞ queueing system. We assume that the rate of the servers alternates between two speeds according to an ON–OFF process whose ON periods are exponentially distributed and with general OFF periods. We look at the particular case where the OFF service rate is zero while the distribution of the OFF periods is heavy tailed, and for this case we derive the...