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Controlled queues in heavy traffic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

John H. Rath
John H. Rath*
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Bell Telephone Laboratories, Holmdel, New Jersey
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Abstract

This paper studies a controlled queueing system in which the decisionmaker may change servers according to rules which depend only on the queue length. It is proved that for a given control policy a properly normalised sequence of these controlled queue length processes converges weakly to a controlled diffusion process as the queueing systems approach a state of heavy traffic.

Keywords

CONTROLLED QUEUESDIFFUSION APPROXIMATIONSWEAK CONVERGENCEHEAVY TRAFFIC

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Research Article
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Advances in Applied Probability , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , September 1975, pp. 656 - 671
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1975 

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