Stochastic Systems
- Stoch. Syst.
- Volume 5, Number 1 (2015), 120-145.
Control of parallel non-observable queues: Asymptotic equivalence and optimality of periodic policies
Jonatha Anselmi, Bruno Gaujal, and Tommaso Nesti
Abstract
We consider a queueing system composed of a dispatcher that routes jobs to a set of non-observable queues working in parallel. In this setting, the fundamental problem is which policy should the dispatcher implement to minimize the stationary mean waiting time of the incoming jobs. We present a structural property that holds in the classic scaling of the system where the network demand (arrival rate of jobs) grows proportionally with the number of queues. Assuming that each queue of type $r$ is replicated $k$ times, we consider a set of policies that are periodic with period $k\sum_{r}p_{r}$ and such that exactly $p_{r}$ jobs are sent in a period to each queue of type $r$. When $k\to\infty$, our main result shows that all the policies in this set are equivalent, in the sense that they yield the same mean stationary waiting time, and optimal, in the sense that no other policy having the same aggregate arrival rate to all queues of a given type can do better in minimizing the stationary mean waiting time. This property holds in a strong probabilistic sense. Furthermore, the limiting mean waiting time achieved by our policies is a convex function of the arrival rate in each queue, which facilitates the development of a further optimization aimed at solving the fundamental problem above for large systems.
Article information
Source
Stoch. Syst., Volume 5, Number 1 (2015), 120-145.
Dates
Received: April 2014
First available in Project Euclid: 23 December 2015
Permanent link to this document
https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ssy/1450879283
Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1214/14-SSY146
Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR3442391
Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1336.60175
Subjects
Primary: 60K25: Queueing theory [See also 68M20, 90B22]
Keywords
Parallel queues periodic policies asymptotic equivalence asymptotic optimality convex optimization
Citation
Anselmi, Jonatha; Gaujal, Bruno; Nesti, Tommaso. Control of parallel non-observable queues: Asymptotic equivalence and optimality of periodic policies. Stoch. Syst. 5 (2015), no. 1, 120--145. doi:10.1214/14-SSY146. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ssy/1450879283
