Join the Shortest Queue with Many Servers. The Heavy-Traffic Asymptotics
Join the Shortest Queue with Many Servers. The Heavy-Traffic Asymptotics
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10.1287/moor.2017.0887
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2015-02
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Patrick C Eschenfeldt;D. Gamarnik
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作者:
Patrick C Eschenfeldt;D. Gamarnik
We consider queueing systems with n parallel queues under a Join the Shortest Queue (JSQ) policy in the Halfin-Whitt heavy-traffic regime. We use the martingale method to prove that a scaled process counting the number of idle servers and queues of length exactly two weakly converges to a two-dimensional reflected Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process, while processes counting longer queues converge to a deterministic system decaying to zero in constant time. This limiting system is comparable to that of the traditional Halfin-Whitt model, but there are key differences in the queueing behavior of the JSQ model. In particular, only a vanishing fraction of customers will have to wait, but those who do incur a constant order waiting time.