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Dynamic priority rules for cyclic-type queues

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

Sid Browne  and
Uri Yechiali
Sid Browne*
Affiliation:
Columbia University
Uri Yechiali*
Affiliation:
Tel Aviv University
*
∗Postal address: Graduate School of Business, 402 Uris Hall, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA.
∗∗Postal address: Department of Statistics, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
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Abstract

A cyclic service system is composed of K channels (queues) and a single cyclically roving server who typically takes a positive amount of time to switch between channels. Research has previously focused on evaluating and computing performance measures (notably, waiting times) of fixed template routing schemes under three main service disciplines, the exhaustive, gated and limited service regimes.

In this paper, probabilistic results are derived that allow control strategies and optimal policies to be considered for the first time. By concentrating on a new objective function, we are able to derive rules of index form amenable for direct implementation to dynamically control the system at suitably defined decision epochs. These rules utilize current system information, are of an adaptive nature, and are shown to emanate from a general physical principle.

Keywords

CYCLIC QUEUESPOLLING SYSTEMSSTOCHASTIC SCHEDULING

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Advances in Applied Probability , Volume 21 , Issue 2 , June 1989 , pp. 432 - 450
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Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1989 

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