CONTROL OF MULTIPLE SERVICE, MULTIPLE RESOURCE COMMUNICATION-NETWORKS

The merging of telephone and computer networks is introducing multiple resources into networks, and information is becoming increasingly distributed across the network. Related services are being integrated onto a single network rather than being offered on separate uncoordinated networks. In this paper, we focus upon communication networks that integrate multiple services using multiple resources. In particular, we look at the decision of whether to accept or deny service requests in such a system. We prove a conjecture for the optimal policy for a related system introduced in [7] and characterize the optimal coordinate convex policy for our multiple service, multiple resource system.