Fluctuation Bounds for the Max-Weight Policy with Applications to State Space Collapse

© 2020 The Author(s). We consider a multihop switched network operating under a max-weight scheduling policy and show that the distance between the queue length process and a fluid solution remains bounded by a constant multiple of the deviation of the cumulative arrival process from its average. We...

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Main Authors: Sharifnassab, Arsalan, Tsitsiklis, John N, Golestani, S Jamaloddin
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/134013
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Summary:© 2020 The Author(s). We consider a multihop switched network operating under a max-weight scheduling policy and show that the distance between the queue length process and a fluid solution remains bounded by a constant multiple of the deviation of the cumulative arrival process from its average. We then exploit this result to prove matching upper and lower bounds for the time scale over which additive state space collapse (SSC) takes place. This implies, as two special cases, an additive SSC result in diffusion scaling under nonMarkovian arrivals and, for the case of independent and identically distributed arrivals, an additive SSC result over an exponential time scale.