OPTIMAL SERVER ACQUISITION IN OPEN QUEUING-NETWORKS

Authors
SUNDARRAJ RP SUNDARARAGHAVAN PS FOX DR
Citation
Rp. Sundarraj et al., OPTIMAL SERVER ACQUISITION IN OPEN QUEUING-NETWORKS, The Journal of the Operational Research Society, 45(5), 1994, pp. 549-558
Citations number
11
Categorie Soggetti
Management,"Operatione Research & Management Science","Operatione Research & Management Science
Journal title
The Journal of the Operational Research Society → ACNP
ISSN journal
01605682
Volume
45
Issue
5
Year of publication
1994
Pages
549 - 558
Database
ISI
SICI code
0160-5682(1994)45:5<549:OSAIOQ>2.0.ZU;2-8
Abstract
Several production and flexible manufacturing systems can naturally be modelled using queueing networks. In this paper, we consider the prob lem of acquiring servers for the nodes of an open queueing network, so as to optimize the steady-state mean virtual system parameters subjec t to a budget constraint. A partial enumeration scheme and a heuristic method have been proposed to solve this problem. Empirical results ba sed on randomly generated test problems are used to identify a class o f problems for which the heuristic performs well.