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Correlation formulas for Markovian network processes in a random environment

Part of: Markov processes Special processes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 March 2016

Hans Daduna  and
Ryszard Szekli
Hans Daduna*
Affiliation:
Hamburg University
Ryszard Szekli*
Affiliation:
Wrocław University
*
* Postal address: Department of Mathematics, University of Hamburg, Bundesstrasse 55, 20146 Hamburg, Germany. Email address: daduna@math.uni-hamburg.de
** Postal address: Mathematical Institute, Wrocław University, pl. Grunwaldzki 2/4, 50-384 Wrocław, Poland.
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Abstract

We consider Markov processes, which describe, e.g. queueing network processes, in a random environment which influences the network by determining random breakdown of nodes, and the necessity of repair thereafter. Starting from an explicit steady-state distribution of product form available in the literature, we note that this steady-state distribution does not provide information about the correlation structure in time and space (over nodes). We study this correlation structure via one-step correlations for the queueing-environment process. Although formulas for absolute values of these correlations are complicated, the differences of correlations of related networks are simple and have a nice structure. We therefore compare two networks in a random environment having the same invariant distribution, and focus on the time behaviour of the processes when in such a network the environment changes or the rules for travelling are perturbed. Evaluating the comparison formulas we compare spectral gaps and asymptotic variances of related processes.

Keywords

Product-form networkspace-time correlationspectral gapasymptotic variancePeskun ordering

MSC classification

Primary: 60K25: Queueing theory
Secondary: 60J25: Continuous-time Markov processes on general state spaces 60K37: Processes in random environments

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Research Article
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Advances in Applied Probability , Volume 48 , Issue 1 , March 2016 , pp. 176 - 198
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Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 2016 

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