Related papers: Stochastic bounds for two-layer loss systems
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Motivated by a web-server model, we present a queueing network consisting of two layers. The first layer incorporates the arrival of customers at a network of two single-server nodes. We assume that the inter-arrival and the service times…
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Utilizing customers' service-time information, we study an easy-to-implement scheduling policy with two priority classes. By carefully designing the classes, the two-class priority rule achieves near-optimal performance. In particular, for…
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