Optimal control of a queueing system with two heterogeneous servers Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • The problem considered is that of optimally controlling a queueing system which consists of a common buffer or queue served by two servers. The arrivals to the buffer are Poisson and the servers are both exponential, but with different mean service times. It is shown that the optimal policy which minimizes the mean sojourn time of customers in the system is of threshold type. The faster server should be fed a customer from the buffer whenever it becomes available for service, but the slower server should be utilized if and only if the queue length exceeds a readily computed threshold value. Copyright 1984 by The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.

published proceedings

  • IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

author list (cited authors)

  • Lin, W., & Kumar, P.

citation count

  • 234

complete list of authors

  • Lin, Woei||Kumar, P

publication date

  • August 1984