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A LOSS SYSTEM WITH SKILL-BASED SERVERS UNDER ASSIGN TO LONGEST IDLE SERVER POLICY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 June 2012

Ivo Adan
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands E-mail: iadan@tue.nl
Gideon Weiss
Affiliation:
Department of Statistics, The University of Haifa, Mount Carmel 31905, Israel E-mail: gweiss@stat.haifa.ac.il

Abstract

We consider a memoryless loss system with servers = {1, …, J}, and with customer types = {1, …, I}. Servers are multi-type: server j works at rate μj, and can serve a subset of customer types C(j). An arriving customer will go to the longest idling server which can serve him, or be lost. We obtain a simple explicit steady-state distribution for this system, and calculate various performance measures of this system in steady state. We provide some illustrative examples. We compare this system with a similar system discussed recently by Adan, Hurkens, and Weiss [1]. We also show that this system is insensitive, the results hold also for general service time distributions.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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