We study the problem of optimally controlling a multiserver queueing system. Customers arrive in a Poisson fashion and join a single queue, served by N servers, S 1 ,S 2 ,… , S N . The servers have different rates. The service times at each server are independent and exponentially distributed....

We study the problem of optimally controlling a multiserver queueing system. Customers arrive in a Poisson fashion and join a single queue, served by N servers, S <Subscript>1</Subscript>,S <Subscript>2</Subscript>,… , S <Subscript>N</Subscript>. The servers have different rates. The service times at each server are independent and exponentially distributed....</subscript></subscript></subscript>

We present an iterative scheme based on the fixed-point approximation method, for the numerical calculation of the time-dependent mean number of customers and blocking probability functions in a nonstationary queueing network with multi-rate loss queues. We first show how the proposed method can...