{"title":"The complexity of optimal queueing network control","authors":"C. Papadimitriou, J. Tsitsiklis","doi":"10.1109/SCT.1994.315792","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We consider the classical problem of optimal control (routing and sequencing) of a network of queues. We prove that this problem is EXP-complete and, therefore, provably intractable. Similar results are established for restricted versions of the problem. A weaker result is also established for the restless bandit problem.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":386782,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE 9th Annual Conference on Structure in Complexity Theory","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1994-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"284","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of IEEE 9th Annual Conference on Structure in Complexity Theory","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCT.1994.315792","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
We consider the classical problem of optimal control (routing and sequencing) of a network of queues. We prove that this problem is EXP-complete and, therefore, provably intractable. Similar results are established for restricted versions of the problem. A weaker result is also established for the restless bandit problem.<>