Optimal workload allocation in open networks of multiserver queues

Optimal workload allocation in open networks of multiserver queues

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Article ID: iaor19932043
Country: United States
Volume: 38
Issue: 12
Start Page Number: 1792
End Page Number: 1802
Publication Date: Dec 1992
Journal: Management Science
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Keywords: queues: applications, work, manufacturing industries, networks: flow
Abstract:

The paper examines the general problem of workload allocation in an open Jackson network of multiserver queues. It shows that use of the open network model leads to a separable, convex formulation of the problem with relatively simple optimality conditions. Using these conditions, the paper proves in general that server groups with the same number of servers should be loaded equally and larger groups should be loaded more heavily than smaller groups. It is also shown that server pooling, combining servers into larger groups, will always reduce congestion and/or increase throughput. The paper discusses the significance of the present results for job shop applications and also for the concept of a production bottleneck. In systems with an unbalanced configuration of servers, traditional, deterministic bottleneck analysis is distinctly nonoptimal; the results provide a simple way to locate production bottlenecks in shops with significant queueing effects.

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