“…The considered model is very close to the models in which some additional resource is required to provide service to a customer. These models include, in particular, so-called queueing/inventory models (see, e.g., [4]), queueing systems with energy harvesting (see, e.g., [5]), queueing models with paired customers (see [6]), assembly-like queue (see [7]), passenger-taxi or double-ended queues (see [8]), coupled queues (see [9]), etc. In our model, the role of the additional resource is played by the lag between the critical and current value of the server's temperature.…”