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HEAVY-TRAFFIC ANALYSIS OF A NON-PREEMPTIVE MULTI-CLASS QUEUE WITH RELATIVE PRIORITIES
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2015
Abstract
We study the steady-state queue-length vector in a multi-class queue with relative priorities. Upon service completion, the probability that the next served customer is from class k is controlled by class-dependent weights. Once a customer has started service, it is served without interruption until completion. We establish a state-space collapse for the scaled queue-length vector in the heavy-traffic regime, that is, in the limit the scaled queue-length vector is distributed as the product of an exponentially distributed random variable and a deterministic vector. We observe that the scaled queue length reduces as classes with smaller mean service requirement obtain relatively larger weights. We finally show that the scaled waiting time of a class-k customer is distributed as the product of two exponentially distributed random variables.
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- Research Article
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- Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , April 2015 , pp. 153 - 180
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- Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015
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