Validity of heavy traffic steady-state approximations in generalized Jackson networks

Annals of Applied Probability

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 56-90

  Gamarnik, David ^a,c   Zeevi, Assaf ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion approximations; Lyapunov functions; Markov processes; Reflected Brownian motion; Stationary distribution; Weak convergence

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645684371     PISSN: 10505164     EISSN: 10505164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/105051605000000638     Document Type: Article

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