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Markov-modulated linear fluid networks with Markov additive input

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Offer Kella*
Affiliation:
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Wolfgang Stadje*
Affiliation:
University of Osnabrück
*
Postal address: Department of Statistics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem 91905, Israel. Email address: mskella@mscc.huji.ac.il
∗∗ Postal address: Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Osnabrück, 49069 Osnabrück, Germany.

Abstract

We consider a network of dams to which the external input is a multivariate Markov additive process. For each state of the Markov chain modulating the Markov additive process, the release rates are linear (constant multiple of the content level). Each unit of material processed by a given station is then divided into fixed proportions each of which is routed to another station or leaves the system. For each state of the modulating process, this routeing is determined by some substochastic matrix. We identify simple conditions for stability and show how to compute transient and stationary characteristics of such networks.

Type
Short Communications
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 2002 

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