TY - JOUR
T1 - Two-parameter process limits for an infinite-server queue with arrival dependent service times
AU - Pang, Guodong
AU - Zhou, Yuhang
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors thank Ward Whitt for helpful discussions on the construction of time-varying service times and comments that have improved the paper. This work is partly supported by an NSF grant ( CMMI-1538149 ) and Marcus endowment grant at Penn State University .
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2017/5/1
Y1 - 2017/5/1
N2 - We study an infinite-server queue with a general arrival process and a large class of general time-varying service time distributions. Specifically, customers’ service times are conditionally independent given their arrival times, and each customer's service time, conditional on her arrival time, has a general distribution function. We prove functional limit theorems for the two-parameter processes Xe(t,y) and Xr(t,y) that represent the numbers of customers in the system at time t that have received an amount of service less than or equal to y, and that have a residual amount of service strictly greater than y, respectively. When the arrival process and the initial content process both have continuous Gaussian limits, we show that the two-parameter limit processes are continuous Gaussian random fields. In the proofs, we introduce a new class of sequential empirical processes with conditionally independent variables of non-stationary distributions, and employ the moment bounds resulting from the method of chaining for the two-parameter stochastic processes.
AB - We study an infinite-server queue with a general arrival process and a large class of general time-varying service time distributions. Specifically, customers’ service times are conditionally independent given their arrival times, and each customer's service time, conditional on her arrival time, has a general distribution function. We prove functional limit theorems for the two-parameter processes Xe(t,y) and Xr(t,y) that represent the numbers of customers in the system at time t that have received an amount of service less than or equal to y, and that have a residual amount of service strictly greater than y, respectively. When the arrival process and the initial content process both have continuous Gaussian limits, we show that the two-parameter limit processes are continuous Gaussian random fields. In the proofs, we introduce a new class of sequential empirical processes with conditionally independent variables of non-stationary distributions, and employ the moment bounds resulting from the method of chaining for the two-parameter stochastic processes.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.spa.2016.08.003
DO - 10.1016/j.spa.2016.08.003
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84994165590
SN - 0304-4149
VL - 127
SP - 1375
EP - 1416
JO - Stochastic Processes and their Applications
JF - Stochastic Processes and their Applications
IS - 5
ER -