In this paper, we develop a general framework to analyze the influence of system load on service times in queueing systems. Our proposed framework unifies previous results and ties them to possible future studies to help empirical and analytical researchers to investigate and model the ways in...

Motivated by the dispatching of trucks to shovels in surface mines, we study optimal routing in a Markovian finite-source, multi-server queueing system with heterogeneous servers, each with a separate queue. We formulate the problem of routing customers to servers to maximize the system...