Scheduling multiclass queueing networks on parallel servers: approximate and heavy-traffic optimality of Klimov’s rule

Kevin Glazebrook and José Nino-Mora
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Kevin Glazebrook: Department of Statistics, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
José Nino-Mora: Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Louvain la Neuve, Belgium

No 1997010, LIDAM Discussion Papers CORE from Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE)

Abstract: We address the problem of scheduling a multiclass queueing network on M parallel servers to minimize the time-average holding cost. We analyze a heuristic index rule, based on Klimov’s solution to the single-server model: when a server becomes free it selects a customer with largest Klimov’s index. We present closed-form performance guarantees for this heuristic, with respect to (1) the optimal cost in the original parallel-servers network, and (2) the optimal cost in a “corresponding” single-server network, attended by a server working M times faster. Simpler expressions are derived for the special case that there is no customer feedback, where the heuristic becomes the c?-rule. Our analysis is based on comparing the cost of the heuristic to the value of (the dual of) a strong linear programming relaxation, which equals the optimal cost for the “corresponding” single-server network. This relaxation follows from a set of approximate conservation laws satisfied by the network. Our proof of these laws relies on the first set of work decomposition laws known for this model, which we obtain from a classical flow conservation law.

Keywords: Multiclass queueing network; performance guarantee; heavy-traffic analysis; sche- duling; performance region; priority index; work decomposition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997-02-01
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