Two-parameter heavy-traffic limits for infinite-server queues

Two-parameter heavy-traffic limits for infinite-server queues

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Article ID: iaor20105805
Volume: 65
Issue: 4
Start Page Number: 325
End Page Number: 364
Publication Date: Aug 2010
Journal: Queueing Systems
Authors: ,
Keywords: infinite server queues
Abstract:

In order to obtain Markov heavy-traffic approximations for infinite-server queues with general non-exponential service-time distributions and general arrival processes, possibly with time-varying arrival rates, we establish heavy-traffic limits for two-parameter stochastic processes. We consider the random variables Q e (t,y) and Q r (t,y) representing the number of customers in the system at time t that have elapsed service times less than or equal to time y, or residual service times strictly greater than y. We also consider W r (t,y) representing the total amount of work in service time remaining to be done at time t+y for customers in the system at time t. The two-parameter stochastic-process limits in the space D([0,8),D) of D-valued functions in D draw on, and extend, previous heavy-traffic limits by Glynn and Whitt (1991), where the case of discrete service-time distributions was treated, and Krichagina and Puhalskii (1997), where it was shown that the variability of service times is captured by the Kiefer process with second argument set equal to the service-time c.d.f.

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