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The cμ rule revisited

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

C. Buyukkoc*
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley
P. Varaiya*
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley
J. Walrand*
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley
*
Postal address: Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and Electronics Research Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
Postal address: Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and Electronics Research Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
Postal address: Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and Electronics Research Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
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Abstract

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The rule is optimal for arbitrary arrival processes provided that the service times are geometric and the service discipline is preemptive.

Type
Letters to the Editor
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1985 

Footnotes

Research supported by Office of Naval Research Contract N00014-80-C-0507 and NSF Grant No. ECS-8205428.

References

1. Baras, J. S., Dorsey, A. J. and Makowski, A. M. (1985) Two competing queues with linear costs: The µc rule is often optimal. Adv. Appl. Prob. 17, 186209.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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