Fuzzy control of queueing systems with heterogeneous servers

IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 17-26

  Zhang, Runtong ^b   Phillis, Yannis A ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Fuzzy control; Queueing fuzzy control; Server allocation; Stochastic fuzzy control

Indexed keywords

CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONS; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUEUEING NETWORKS; QUEUEING THEORY; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

QUEUEING FUZZY CONTROL; SERVER ALLOCATIONS; STOCHASTIC FUZZY CONTROL;

FUZZY CONTROL;

EID: 0033078388     PISSN: 10636706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/91.746299     Document Type: Article

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