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Processors selection and traffic splitting in a parallel processors system

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This paper considers a general design problem for a parallel processors system which consists of a set of non-homogeneous potential processors and a set of traffic distributing points. For this problem, two levels of technology choice are made: 1) which candidate processors to establish with capacity option, 2) how to allocate the incoming traffic among established processors generated at each distributing point. The associated model is formulated as a linear fractional integer program whose objective is to minimize the maximum mean queue length on any established processor, while satisfying a side constraint such as budget constraint. Within the framework of branch and bound procedure, fractional subproblems are optimized by solving a sequence of linear programming problems. Computational experience with randomly generated 25 test problems is presented.

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  1. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Yusong-gu, Taejon, Korea

    Dong-wan Tcha

  2. Cheil Synthetics, Seoul, Korea

    Bum-il Lee

  3. University of Ulsan, Ulsan, Korea

    Young-duck Lee

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Tcha, Dw., Lee, Bi. & Lee, Yd. Processors selection and traffic splitting in a parallel processors system. Acta Informatica 29, 415–423 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01193575

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