Performance bounds and pathwise stability for generalized vacation and polling systems

Performance bounds and pathwise stability for generalized vacation and polling systems

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Article ID: iaor19992673
Country: United States
Volume: 46
Issue: 1
Start Page Number: 137
End Page Number: 148
Publication Date: Jan 1998
Journal: Operations Research
Authors: , , ,
Keywords: vacation models
Abstract:

We consider a generalized vacation or polling system, modeled as an input–output process operating over successive ‘cycles’, in which the service mechanism can be in an ‘up’ mode (processing) or ‘down’ mode (e.g., vacation, walking). Our primary motivation is polling systems, in which there are several queues and the server moves cyclically between them providing some service in each. Our basic assumption is that the amount of work that leaves the system in a ‘cycle’ is no less than the amount present at the beginning of the cycle. This includes the standard gated and exhaustive policies for polling systems in which a cycle begins whenever the server arrives at some prespecified queue. The input and output processes satisfy model-dependent conditions: pathwise bounds on the average rate and the business (Cruz bounds); existence of long-run average rates; a pathwise generalized Law of the Iterated Logarithm; or exponentially or polynomially bounded tail probabilities of burstiness. In each model we show that these properties are inherited by performance measures such as the workload and output processes, and that the system is stable (in a model-dependent sense) if the input rate is smaller than the up-mode processing rate.

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