Weber, Richard R.; Stidham, Shaler jun. Optimal control of service rates in networks of queues. (English) Zbl 0617.60090 Adv. Appl. Probab. 19, 202-218 (1987). The problem of optimal service rate control in Markov queueing networks is considered. As an example the cycle-of-queues is chosen. The holding cost per unit time and service cost for each unit of time depending on the service rate and the number of queues are given. The aim of the authors is to define the optimal service rate for the minimization of expected discounted costs over a finite horizon. The stochastic dynamic programming method is used. Reviewer: J.Morozov Cited in 1 ReviewCited in 67 Documents MSC: 60K25 Queueing theory (aspects of probability theory) 60K20 Applications of Markov renewal processes (reliability, queueing networks, etc.) 90C39 Dynamic programming 90B22 Queues and service in operations research Keywords:optimal service rate control; queueing networks; stochastic dynamic programming method PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{R. R. Weber} and \textit{S. Stidham jun.}, Adv. Appl. Probab. 19, 202--218 (1987; Zbl 0617.60090) Full Text: DOI Link