On the optimal allocation of customers that must depart in sequence

Kuri, Joy and Kumar, Anurag (1994) On the optimal allocation of customers that must depart in sequence. In: Operations Research Letters, 15 (1). pp. 41-46.

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Abstract

We address the problem of optimally allocating a stream of arriving customers to a system of n queues, each with its own server. The additional feature of the system is that customers must depart in sequence. For a completely general customer arrival process and deterministic customer service times, we show that the round-robin allocation policy is optimal in a sample path sense.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Operations Research Letters
Publisher:	Elsevier
Additional Information:	The copyright of this article belongs to Elsevier.
Keywords:	Queues with resequencing;Round-robin scheduling;Optimal scheduling
Department/Centre:	Division of Electrical Sciences > Electrical Communication Engineering
Date Deposited:	01 Aug 2006
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 04:30
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/7968

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