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MULTIPLE SERVER PREEMPTIVE SCHEDULING WITH IMPATIENCE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2016

Yang Cao
Yang Cao*
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Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA E-mail: cao573@usc.edu
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Abstract

There are n customers that need to be served by m parallel servers (n≥m). Customer i will only wait in queue for an exponentially distributed time with rate λi before departing the system. The service time on server j is exponentially distributed with rate μj for all customers, and upon completion of service of customer i a positive reward r i is earned. The non-preemptive problem is to choose, after each service completion, which currently in queue customer to serve next. The preemptive problem is to decide when to preempt a service, and to choose, after each service completion or preemption, which currently in queue customer to serve next. The objective of both problems is to maximize the expected total return. We give conditions under which a list policy is optimal for both problems.

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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences , Volume 31 , Issue 2 , April 2017 , pp. 226 - 238
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 

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