scholarly journals Markov-Modulated Brownian Motion with Two Reflecting Barriers

2010 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 1034-1047 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jevgenijs Ivanovs

We consider a Markov-modulated Brownian motion reflected to stay in a strip [0, B]. The stationary distribution of this process is known to have a simple form under some assumptions. We provide a short probabilistic argument leading to this result and explain its simplicity. Moreover, this argument allows for generalizations including the distribution of the reflected process at an independent, exponentially distributed epoch. Our second contribution concerns transient behavior of the model. We identify the joint law of the processes defining the model at inverse local times.

2010 ◽  
Vol 47 (04) ◽  
pp. 1034-1047 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jevgenijs Ivanovs

We consider a Markov-modulated Brownian motion reflected to stay in a strip [0, B]. The stationary distribution of this process is known to have a simple form under some assumptions. We provide a short probabilistic argument leading to this result and explain its simplicity. Moreover, this argument allows for generalizations including the distribution of the reflected process at an independent, exponentially distributed epoch. Our second contribution concerns transient behavior of the model. We identify the joint law of the processes defining the model at inverse local times.


2004 ◽  
Vol 41 (04) ◽  
pp. 1237-1242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Offer Kella ◽  
Wolfgang Stadje

We consider a Brownian motion with time-reversible Markov-modulated speed and two reflecting barriers. A methodology depending on a certain multidimensional martingale together with some linear algebra is applied in order to explicitly compute the stationary distribution of the joint process of the content level and the state of the underlying Markov chain. It is shown that the stationary distribution is such that the two quantities are independent. The long-run average push at the two barriers at each of the states is also computed.


2004 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 1237-1242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Offer Kella ◽  
Wolfgang Stadje

We consider a Brownian motion with time-reversible Markov-modulated speed and two reflecting barriers. A methodology depending on a certain multidimensional martingale together with some linear algebra is applied in order to explicitly compute the stationary distribution of the joint process of the content level and the state of the underlying Markov chain. It is shown that the stationary distribution is such that the two quantities are independent. The long-run average push at the two barriers at each of the states is also computed.


2013 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 430-438 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lothar Breuer

We consider a Markov-modulated Brownian motion (MMBM) with phase-dependent termination rates, i.e. while in a phase i the process terminates with a constant hazard rate ri ≥ 0. For such a process, we determine the matrix of expected local times (at zero) before termination and hence the resolvent. The results are applied to some recent questions arising in the framework of insurance risk. We further provide expressions for the resolvent and the local times at zero of an MMBM reflected at its infimum.


2013 ◽  
Vol 50 (02) ◽  
pp. 430-438 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lothar Breuer

We consider a Markov-modulated Brownian motion (MMBM) with phase-dependent termination rates, i.e. while in a phase i the process terminates with a constant hazard rate r i ≥ 0. For such a process, we determine the matrix of expected local times (at zero) before termination and hence the resolvent. The results are applied to some recent questions arising in the framework of insurance risk. We further provide expressions for the resolvent and the local times at zero of an MMBM reflected at its infimum.


2012 ◽  
Vol 49 (02) ◽  
pp. 549-565 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lothar Breuer

In this paper we determine the distributions of occupation times of a Markov-modulated Brownian motion (MMBM) in separate intervals before a first passage time or an exit from an interval. We derive the distributions in terms of their Laplace transforms, and we also distinguish between occupation times in different phases. For MMBMs with strictly positive variation parameters, we further propose scale functions.


1992 ◽  
Vol 29 (04) ◽  
pp. 996-1002 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. J. Williams

A direct derivation is given of a formula for the normalized asymptotic variance parameters of the boundary local times of reflected Brownian motion (with drift) on a compact interval. This formula was previously obtained by Berger and Whitt using an M/M/1/C queue approximation to the reflected Brownian motion. The bivariate Laplace transform of the hitting time of a level and the boundary local time up to that hitting time, for a one-dimensional reflected Brownian motion with drift, is obtained as part of the derivation.


2012 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 883-887 ◽  
Author(s):  
Offer Kella

The goal is to identify the class of distributions to which the distribution of the maximum of a Lévy process with no negative jumps and negative mean (equivalently, the stationary distribution of the reflected process) belongs. An explicit new distributional identity is obtained for the case where the Lévy process is an independent sum of a Brownian motion and a general subordinator (nondecreasing Lévy process) in terms of a geometrically distributed sum of independent random variables. This generalizes both the distributional form of the standard Pollaczek-Khinchine formula for the stationary workload distribution in the M/G/1 queue and the exponential stationary distribution of a reflected Brownian motion.


2012 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 1-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erkan Nane ◽  
Dongsheng Wu ◽  
Yimin Xiao

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