{"title":"Optimality of threshold policies for heterogeneous server systems","authors":"P. Luh, I. Viniotis","doi":"10.1109/CDC.1990.203714","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The problem of optimally controlling a multiserver queuing system is studied. Arriving customers join a single queue, which is served by N servers, S/sub 1/, S/sub 2/, . . ., S/sub N/. The servers are exponential, but of different rates. The goal is to determine the policy that minimizes the total expected time a customer spends in the system. It is shown that the optical policy is of threshold type, i.e., it activates server S/sub i/ only when m/sub i/ does not depend on the condition of other (slower) servers at the decision instant. The optimal control problem is reformulated as a linear program and a novel argument is used based on the structure of the constraint matrix, in order to establish the results.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":287089,"journal":{"name":"29th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control","volume":"174 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1990-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"6","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"29th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CDC.1990.203714","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The problem of optimally controlling a multiserver queuing system is studied. Arriving customers join a single queue, which is served by N servers, S/sub 1/, S/sub 2/, . . ., S/sub N/. The servers are exponential, but of different rates. The goal is to determine the policy that minimizes the total expected time a customer spends in the system. It is shown that the optical policy is of threshold type, i.e., it activates server S/sub i/ only when m/sub i/ does not depend on the condition of other (slower) servers at the decision instant. The optimal control problem is reformulated as a linear program and a novel argument is used based on the structure of the constraint matrix, in order to establish the results.<>