scholarly journals Stability and Instability of the MaxWeight Policy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maury Bramson ◽  
Bernardo D’Auria ◽  
Neil Walton
Keyword(s):  
Communication Networks ◽  
Queueing Networks ◽  
Fluid Model ◽  
Queueing Network ◽  
Traffic Intensity ◽  
Weighted Version ◽  
Simple Formulation ◽  
Model Variant ◽  
Stability And Instability ◽  
Greedy Policy

Consider a switched queueing network with general routing among its queues. The MaxWeight policy assigns available service by maximizing the objective function [Formula: see text] among the different feasible service options, where [Formula: see text] denotes queue size and [Formula: see text] denotes the amount of service to be executed at queue [Formula: see text]. MaxWeight is a greedy policy that does not depend on knowledge of arrival rates and is straightforward to implement. These properties and its simple formulation suggest MaxWeight as a serious candidate for implementation in the setting of switched queueing networks; MaxWeight has been extensively studied in the context of communication networks. However, a fluid model variant of MaxWeight was previously shown not to be maximally stable. Here, we prove that MaxWeight itself is not in general maximally stable. We also prove MaxWeight is maximally stable in a much more restrictive setting, and that a weighted version of MaxWeight, where the weighting depends on the traffic intensity, is always stable.

STABILITY IN QUEUEING NETWORKS VIA THE FINITE DECOMPOSITION PROPERTY

2008 ◽  
Vol 25 (03) ◽  
pp. 393-409
Author(s):  
UTKU YILDIRIM ◽  
JOHN J. HASENBEIN
Keyword(s):  
Global Stability ◽  
Queueing Networks ◽  
Fluid Model ◽  
Queueing Network ◽  
Decomposition Property ◽  
Stability Behavior ◽  
Fluid Network ◽  
Weakly Stable ◽  
The Stability

Determination of the stability behavior of a queueing network is an important part of analyzing such systems. Gamarnik and Hasenbein (2005) have shown that if a fluid network has the finite decomposition property (FDP) and is not weakly stable, then any queueing network associated with the fluid network is not rate stable. In Gamarnik and Hasenbein's paper, the FDP was demonstrated for two station queueing networks only. In this paper, we show that the property holds for certain classes of queueing networks with any number of stations, thus allowing one to completely analyze the global stability of such queueing networks via the fluid model.

scholarly journals Finite Queueing Modeling and Optimization: A Selected Review

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. R. B. Cruz ◽  
T. van Woensel
Keyword(s):  
Performance Evaluation ◽  
Queueing Networks ◽  
Queueing Network ◽  
Expansion Method ◽  
Network Analyzer ◽  
Modeling And Optimization ◽  
Product Engineering ◽  
Service Rates

This review provides an overview of the queueing modeling issues and the related performance evaluation and optimization approaches framed in a joined manufacturing and product engineering. Such networks are represented as queueing networks. The performance of the queueing networks is evaluated using an advanced queueing network analyzer: the generalized expansion method. Secondly, different model approaches are described and optimized with regard to the key parameters in the network (e.g., buffer and server sizes, service rates, and so on).

Software for Queueing Analysis

2018 ◽  
pp. 255-291
Keyword(s):  
Queueing Networks ◽  
Discrete Event ◽  
Queueing Network ◽  
Queueing Analysis ◽  
Discrete Events ◽  
Technical Literature ◽  
Event Simulation ◽  
Statistical Program ◽  
Service Times ◽  
Waiting Lines

Chapter 8 gives a brief discussion of computer simulation for discrete events. The chapter lists software programs in the technical literature that outline programs for the simulation of discrete events, both of commercial origin and free programs. In addition to the lists submitted, the authors present specialized packages for analysis and simulation of waiting lines in the R language. Statistical considerations are presented, which must be taken into account when obtaining data from simulations in situations of waiting lines. Chapter 8 presents three packages of the statistical program R: the “queueing” analysis package provides versatile tools for analysis of birth- and death-based Markovian queueing models and single and multiclass product-form queueing networks; “simmer” package is a process-oriented and trajectory-based discrete-event simulation (DES) package for R; and, the purpose of the “queuecomputer” package is to calculate, deterministically, the outputs of a queueing network, given the arrival and service times of all the customers. It also uses simulation for the implementation of a method for the calculation of queues with arbitrary arrival and service times. For each theme, the authors show the use of the packages in R.

Realization probability in closed Jackson queueing networks and its application

1987 ◽  
Vol 19 (03) ◽  
pp. 708-738 ◽  
Author(s):  
X. R. Cao
Keyword(s):  
Steady State ◽  
Perturbation Analysis ◽  
Queueing Networks ◽  
Sample Path ◽  
Queueing Network ◽  
Jackson Network ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Service Times ◽  
A New Technique ◽  
Number Of Customers

Perturbation analysis is a new technique which yields the sensitivities of system performance measures with respect to parameters based on one sample path of a system. This paper provides some theoretical analysis for this method. A new notion, the realization probability of a perturbation in a closed queueing network, is studied. The elasticity of the expected throughput in a closed Jackson network with respect to the mean service times can be expressed in terms of the steady-state probabilities and realization probabilities in a very simple way. The elasticity of the throughput with respect to the mean service times when the service distributions are perturbed to non-exponential distributions can also be obtained using these realization probabilities. It is proved that the sample elasticity of the throughput obtained by perturbation analysis converges to the elasticity of the expected throughput in steady-state both in mean and with probability 1 as the number of customers served goes to This justifies the existing algorithms based on perturbation analysis which efficiently provide the estimates of elasticities in practice.

scholarly journals Product forms based on backward traffic equations

1995 ◽  
Vol 32 (02) ◽  
pp. 508-518
Author(s):  
Richard J. Boucherie
Keyword(s):  
Queueing Networks ◽  
Queueing Network ◽  
New Product ◽  
Capacity Constraints ◽  
Product Form ◽  
New Form ◽  
Product Forms ◽  
Exact Product

This paper introduces a new form of local balance and the corresponding product-form results. It is shown that these new product-form results allow capacity constraints at the stations of a queueing network without reversibility assumptions and without special blocking protocols. In particular, exact product-form results for heavily loaded queueing networks are obtained.

scholarly journals Throughput Maximization of Queueing Networks with Simultaneous Minimization of Service Rates and Buffers

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. R. B. Cruz ◽  
G. Kendall ◽  
L. While ◽  
A. R. Duarte ◽  
N. L. C. Brito
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Algorithm ◽  
Queueing Networks ◽  
Queueing Network ◽  
Efficient Solutions ◽  
Throughput Maximization ◽  
Service Rate ◽  
Multiobjective Genetic Algorithm ◽  
Conflicting Objectives ◽  
Service Rates ◽  
General Service

The throughput of an acyclic, general-service time queueing network was optimized, and the total number of buffers and the overall service rate was reduced. To satisfy these conflicting objectives, a multiobjective genetic algorithm was developed and employed. Thus, our method produced a set of efficient solutions for more than one objective in the objective function. A comprehensive set of computational experiments was conducted to determine the efficacy and efficiency of the proposed approach. Interesting insights obtained from the analysis of a complex network may assist practitioners in planning general-service queueing networks.

scholarly journals Cyclic queueing networks with subexponential service times

2004 ◽  
Vol 41 (03) ◽  
pp. 791-801
Author(s):  
H. Ayhan ◽  
Z. Palmowski ◽  
S. Schlegel
Keyword(s):  
Queueing Networks ◽  
Time Distribution ◽  
Waiting Times ◽  
Queueing Network ◽  
Service Time Distribution ◽  
Tail Behavior ◽  
Cycle Times ◽  
General Service Times ◽  
Service Times ◽  
General Service

For a K-stage cyclic queueing network with N customers and general service times, we provide bounds on the nth departure time from each stage. Furthermore, we analyze the asymptotic tail behavior of cycle times and waiting times given that at least one service-time distribution is subexponential.

Overall station balance and decomposability for non-Markovian queueing networks

1998 ◽  
Vol 30 (03) ◽  
pp. 870-887 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Fakinos ◽  
A. Economou
Keyword(s):  
Queueing Networks ◽  
Sufficient Conditions ◽  
Queueing Network ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient Conditions ◽  
Jackson Type ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient ◽  
Markovian Queueing Networks

Introducing the concept of overall station balance which extends the notion of station balance to non-Markovian queueing networks, several necessary and sufficient conditions are given for overall station balance to hold. Next the concept of decomposability is introduced and it is related to overall station balance. A particular case corresponding to a Jackson-type queueing network is considered in some more detail.

Stochastic Monotonicities in Jackson Queueing Networks

1997 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Torgny Lindvall
Keyword(s):  
Queueing Networks ◽  
Queueing Network ◽  
Zero Point ◽  
Monotonicity Property ◽  
Stochastic Monotonicity ◽  
Property A ◽  
Jackson Network ◽  
Queueing Process ◽  
Network Process ◽  
Number Of Customers

When starting from 0, a standard M/M/k queueing process has a second-order stochastic monotonicity property of a strong kind: its increments are stochastically decreasing (the SDI property). A first attempt to generalize this to the Jackson queueing network fails. This gives us reason to reexamine the underlying theory for stochastic monotonicity of Markov processes starting from a zero-point, in order to find a condition on a function of a Jackson network process to have the SDI property. It turns out that the total number of customers at time t has the desired property, if the network is idle at time O. We use couplings in our analysis; they are also of value in the comparison of two networks with different parameters.

Overall station balance and decomposability for non-Markovian queueing networks

1998 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 870-887 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Fakinos ◽  
A. Economou
Keyword(s):  
Queueing Networks ◽  
Sufficient Conditions ◽  
Queueing Network ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient Conditions ◽  
Jackson Type ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient ◽  
Markovian Queueing Networks

Introducing the concept of overall station balance which extends the notion of station balance to non-Markovian queueing networks, several necessary and sufficient conditions are given for overall station balance to hold. Next the concept of decomposability is introduced and it is related to overall station balance. A particular case corresponding to a Jackson-type queueing network is considered in some more detail.

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