Efficient simulation of multiclass queueing networks. Henderson, S. & Meyn, S. In Andradóottir, S., Healy, K., Withers, D., & Nelson, B., editors, Proceedings of the 1997 Winter Simulation Conference, pages 216–223, Piscataway NJ, 1997. IEEE.
Efficient simulation of multiclass queueing networks [pdf]Paper  abstract   bibtex   
General multiclass queueing systems are extremely difficult to analyze. A great deal of effort has been devoted to examining the question of stability and performance of such networks. However, the simulation of multiclass queueing networks as a tool for performance evaluation has received little attention. We generate useful control variates for the steady-state simulation of multiclass queueing networks with Markovian structure. The resulting variance reductions greatly outweigh the cost of solving a minimization problem prior to the simulation, as evidenced through numerical examples.

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