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Alternative routeing in fully connected queueing networks

Part of: Operations research and management science Special processes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

C. N. Laws  and
Y. C. Teh
C. N. Laws*
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
Y. C. Teh*
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
*
∗ Postal address: Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, 1 South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3TG, UK.
∗∗ Email address: laws@stats.ox.ac.uk
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Abstract

We consider a fully connected queueing network in which customers have one direct and many alternative routes through the network, and where customer routeing is dynamic. We obtain an asymptotically optimal routeing policy, taking the limit as the number of queues of the network increases. We observe that good policies route customers directly, unless there is a danger of servers becoming idle, in which case customers should be routed alternatively so as to avoid such idleness, and this leads to policies that perform well in moderate-sized networks.

Keywords

Queueing networksalternative routeingoptimizationdynamic routeing

MSC classification

Primary: 90B15: Network models, stochastic
Secondary: 60K30: Applications (congestion, allocation, storage, traffic, etc.)

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Type
General Applied Probability
Information
Advances in Applied Probability , Volume 32 , Issue 4 , December 2000 , pp. 962 - 982
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 2000 

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