| Article ID: | iaor20115778 |
| Volume: | 68 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 51 |
| End Page Number: | 60 |
| Publication Date: | May 2011 |
| Journal: | Queueing Systems |
| Authors: | Walton S |
| Keywords: | allocation: resources |
We describe a queuing model where service is allocated as a function of queue sizes. We consider allocations policies that are insensitive to service requirements and have a maximal stability region. We take a limit where the queuing model becomes congested. We study how service is allocated under this limit. We demonstrate that the only possible limit allocation is one that maximizes a proportionally fair optimization problem.