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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 13, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 28, 1995
William A Massey, Somerset, NJ (US);
Ward Whitt, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
A method determines the number of servers as a function of time required for a finite server queueing system based on a projected load. The number of servers is chosen subject to the constraint that the probability of delay before beginning service does not exceed a target probability at all times. The finite server queueing system is first advantageously modeled as an infinite-server system and the mean and variance of the number of busy servers at time t is determined and a distribution is approximated. For any time, the number of servers is chosen to be the least number so that the probability that these are all busy is less than the target probability. As an optional refinement, the infinite server target tail probability is then related to the actual delay probability in the finite server system.