Admission and Routing Control of Multiple Queues with Multiple Types of Customers

IF 2 3区工程技术 Q3 ENGINEERING, INDUSTRIAL

IISE Transactions Pub Date : 2023-09-25 DOI:10.1080/24725854.2023.2261569

Sha Chen, Izak Duenyas, Seyed Iravani

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AbstractWe study the routing and admission control problem in a parallel queueing system with heterogeneous servers serving multiple types of customers. The system makes admission decision regarding whether to admit a customer upon arrival as well as routing decision of which queue an admitted customer is assigned to. The objective is to maximize the expected profit, which includes customer-dependent revenues and holding cost and server-dependent cost. We first characterize the structure of the optimal policy for the case with two servers and two types of customers that have the same holding cost. We show that the optimal admission and routing policy has a complex non-monotone structure; however, we show that this non-monotone structure is the result of overlapping of three pairwise dominant policies that have a monotone structure. Utilizing the above structure, we propose three heuristics for the general case of multiple servers and multiple types of customers. Through a numerical study, we demonstrate the effectiveness of our heuristics, and provide conditions under which each heuristic performs well. Lastly, we provide insights on the effect of holding cost on customer rejection and the effect of fixed production cost on capacity allocation.Keywords: Routing controladmission controlMarkov decision processparallel queuesDisclaimerAs a service to authors and researchers we are providing this version of an accepted manuscript (AM). Copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proofs will be undertaken on this manuscript before final publication of the Version of Record (VoR). During production and pre-press, errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal relate to these versions also. Acknowledgement:

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具有多类型客户的多队列的接纳与路由控制

摘要研究了具有多种客户类型的异构服务器的并行排队系统的路由和准入控制问题。系统对到达时是否接纳顾客作出接纳决定，并对被接纳的顾客分配到哪个队列作出路由决定。目标是最大化预期利润，其中包括依赖于客户的收入、持有成本和依赖于服务器的成本。我们首先描述了具有相同持有成本的两个服务器和两种类型的客户的情况下的最优策略的结构。结果表明，最优录取和路由策略具有复杂的非单调结构;然而，我们证明了这种非单调结构是三个具有单调结构的成对优势策略重叠的结果。利用上述结构，我们针对多服务器和多类型客户的一般情况提出了三种启发式方法。通过数值研究，我们证明了我们的启发式算法的有效性，并提供了每个启发式算法运行良好的条件。最后，我们分析了持有成本对客户拒绝的影响以及固定生产成本对产能分配的影响。关键词:路由控制准入控制马尔可夫决策过程并行队列免责声明作为对作者和研究人员的服务，我们提供此版本的已接受稿件(AM)。在最终出版版本记录(VoR)之前，将对该手稿进行编辑、排版和审查。在制作和印前，可能会发现可能影响内容的错误，所有适用于期刊的法律免责声明也与这些版本有关。确认:

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