Optimal server allocation to parallel queues with finite-capacity buffers

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 279-285

  Wasserman, K M ^a   Bambos, Nicholas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

ALLOCATION POLICIES; ALLOCATION PROBLEMS; ARBITRARY DISTRIBUTION; DYNAMIC ALLOCATIONS; IDENTICALLY DISTRIBUTED RANDOM VARIABLES; MUTUALLY INDEPENDENTS; NON-IDLING POLICIES; OPTIMAL SERVER ALLOCATION;

QUEUEING THEORY;

EID: 0030535869     PISSN: 02699648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0269964800004332     Document Type: Article

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