We investigate the stationary characteristics of an M/G/1 retrial queue where the server, subject to active failures, primarily attends incoming calls and directs outgoing calls only when idle.  On finding the server unavailable ( busy or failed), inbound calls join the orbit and reattempt for service at exponentially-distributed time intervals. The system stability condition and probability generating functions  of the number of calls in orbit and system are derived and evaluated numerically in the context of mean system size, server availability, failure frequency , and orbit waiting time.
Efficient use of call center operators through technological innovations more often come at the expense of added operation management issues. In this paper, the stationary characteristics of an M/G/1 retrial queue is investigated where the single server, subject to active failures, primarily attends incoming calls and directs outgoing calls only when idle. The incoming calls arriving at the server follow a Poisson arrival process, while outgoing calls are made in an exponentially distributed time. On finding the server unavailable ( either busy or temporarily broken down), incoming calls intrinsically join the virtual orbit from which they re-attempt for service at exponentially distributed time intervals. The system stability condition along with probability generating functions for the joint queue length distribution of the number of calls in the orbit and the state of the server are derived and evaluated numerically in the context of mean system size, server availability, failure frequency and orbit waiting time.
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