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Transient asymptotics of Lévy-driven queues
With (Qt)t denoting the stationary workload process in a queue fed by a L´evy input process (Xt)t, this
paper focuses on the asymptotics of rare event probabilities of the type P(Q0 > pB,QTB > qB), for given
positive numbers p, q, and a positive determinstic function TB.
- We first identify conditions under which the probability of interest is dominated by the ‘most demanding
event’, in the sense that it is asymptotically equivalent to P(Q > max{p, q}B) for B large,
where Q denotes the steady-state workload. These conditions essentially reduce to TB being sublinear
(i.e., TB/B ! 0 as B ! 1)
- A second condition is derived under which the probability of interest essentially ‘decouples’, in
that it is asymptotically equivalent to P(Q > pB)P(Q > qB) for B large. For various models
considered in the literature this ‘decoupling condition’ reduces to requiring that TB is superlinear
(i.e., TB/B ! 1as B ! 1). Notable exceptions are two ‘heavy-tailed’ cases, viz. the situations in
which the L´evy input process corresponds to an -stable process, or to a compound Poisson process
with regularly varying job sizes, in which the ‘decoupling condition’ reduces to TB/B2 ! 1. For
these input processes we also establish the asymptotics of the probability under consideration for
TB increasing superlinearly but subquadratically.
We pay special attention to the case TB = RB for some R > 0; for light-tailed input we derive intuitively
appealing asymptotics, intensively relying on sample-path large deviations results. The regimes obtained
have appealing interpretations in terms of most likely paths to overflow
Some Asymptotic Results for the Transient Distribution of the Halfin-Whitt Diffusion Process
We consider the Halfin-Whitt diffusion process , which is used, for
example, as an approximation to the -server queue. We use recently
obtained integral representations for the transient density of this
diffusion process, and obtain various asymptotic results for the density. The
asymptotic limit assumes that a drift parameter in the model is large,
and the state variable and the initial condition (with
) are also large. We obtain some alternate representations for
the density, which involve sums and/or contour integrals, and expand these
using a combination of the saddle point method, Laplace method and singularity
analysis. The results give some insight into how steady state is achieved, and
how if the probability mass migrates from to the range
, which is where it concentrates as , in the limit we
consider. We also discuss an alternate approach to the asymptotics, based on
geometrical optics and singular perturbation techniques.Comment: 43 pages and 8 figure
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