Title :
State-dependent allocation of job stream to parallel workstations
Author_Institution :
Bellcore, Morristown, NJ, USA
Abstract :
A simple state-dependent assignment rule is derived for reducing the probability of blocking in the allocation of an arriving job stream among parallel stations with finite buffers. To compare the performance of the proposed assignment rule with that of an optimum state-dependent rule, the author presents numerical results for an example in which a job stream of arrival rate 4.0 is offered to two workstations operating in parallel. Without burdensome computation, the rule achieves near-optimum performance
Keywords :
production control; scheduling; job stream allocation; parallel workstations; production control; scheduling; state-dependent assignment rule; Concurrent computing; Control systems; Costs; Manufacturing systems; Mathematical model; Random variables; Routing; Telephony; Traffic control; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
Decision and Control, 1988., Proceedings of the 27th IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Austin, TX
DOI :
10.1109/CDC.1988.194752
