Optimal Routing to Parallel Heterogeneous Servers-Small Arrival Rates

Zvi Rosberg, Armand M. Makowski

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Abstract

Consider a set of k(>2) heterogeneous and exponential servers which operate in parallel. Customers arrive into a single infinite capacity buffer according to a Poisson process, and are routed to available servers in accordance with some routing policy. We show that for arrival rates in some positive interval (0, Ao], every routing policy which minimizes the long-run expected holding cost is contained in the set of routing policies that minimize the expected flow time for a system with fixed initial population and no new arrivals.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)789-796
Number of pages8
JournalIEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
Volume35
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 1990
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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