Queueing Network Models and Facility Planning

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Queuing network models have become increasingly important tools to architects and engineers in the planning and design of facilities, since the optimal configuration of activities, routing of customers, and composition of resources (space, staff, and equipment) can be analyzed with queuing network models. In this study, the scope and limitations of queuing network decomposition techniques for modeling the optimal topology, routing, and resource allocation problems within facilities will be explored. Focus will be on finite open and closed queuing network models of this problem using the Generalized Expansion methodology. The robustness of the analytical approach will be compared with simulation experiments of example facility networks.