Analysis of the Optimal Resource Allocation for a Tandem Queueing System
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Abstract: In this paper, we study a controllable tandem queueing system consisting of two nodes and a controller, in which customers arrive according to a Poisson process and must receive service at both nodes before leaving the system. A decision maker dynamically allocates the number of service resource to each node facility according to the number of customers in each node. In the model, the objective is to minimize the long-run average costs. We cast these problems as Markov decision problems by dynamic programming approach and derive the monotonicity of the optimal allocation policy and the relationship between the two nodes' optimal policy. Furthermore, we get the conditions under which the optimal policy is unique and has the bang-bang control policy property.
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