Stationary distribution convergence of the offered waiting processes in heavy traffic under general patience time scaling

Chihoon Lee, Amy R. Ward, Heng Qing Ye

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Abstract

We study a sequence of single server queues with customer abandonment (GI/ GI/ 1 + GI) under heavy traffic. The patience time distributions vary with the sequence, which allows for a wider scope of applications. It is known Lee and Weerasinghe (Stochastic Process Appl 121(11):2507–2552, 2011) and Reed and Ward (Math Oper Res 33(3):606–644, 2008) that the sequence of scaled offered waiting time processes converges weakly to a reflecting diffusion process with nonlinear drift, as the traffic intensity approaches one. In this paper, we further show that the sequence of stationary distributions and moments of the offered waiting times, with diffusion scaling, converge to those of the limit diffusion process. This justifies the stationary performance of the diffusion limit as a valid approximation for the stationary performance of the GI/ GI/ 1 + GI queue. Consequently, we also derive the approximation for the abandonment probability for the GI/ GI/ 1 + GI queue in the stationary state.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)283-303
Number of pages21
JournalQueueing Systems
Volume99
Issue number3-4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2021

Keywords

  • Customer Abandonment
  • Heavy Traffic
  • Stationary Distribution Convergence

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Statistics and Probability
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Management Science and Operations Research
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics

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