Technical Note—Optimality of Monotonic Policies for Multiple-Server Exponential Queuing Systems with State-Dependent Arrival Rates

Wayne Winston
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Wayne Winston: Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

Operations Research, 1978, vol. 26, issue 6, 1089-1094

Abstract: We consider an exponential queuing system consisting of several removable servers in which the arrival rate depends on the current system state. Costs are incurred at a rate that depends on both the number of customers present and the number of servers in operation. We present conditions that ensure that the number of servers in operation is a non-decreasing function of the number of customers in the system.

Date: 1978
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