The Best Order for Queues in Series

DOI10.1287/MNSC.31.4.475MaRDI QIDQ3750477zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ward Whitt

Publication date 1985

Published in Management Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.31.4.475

zbMATH Keywords

approximation methodsheuristic designbest orderexpected equilibrium sojourn time per customerservice stations in series

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Queues and service in operations research (90B22) Queueing theory (aspects of probability theory) (60K25)

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