Note—On the Validity of Marginal Analysis for Allocating Servers in M/M/c Queues

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1 May 1977

journal article
Published by Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) in Management Science

Vol. 23 (9) , 1019-1022
https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.23.9.1019

Abstract

In this note we prove a conjecture of Rolfe concerning the convexity of the expected queueing time formula for an M/M/c queue.

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