• DocumentCode
    3377431
  • Title

    Sampling point processes on stable unbounded regions and exact simulation of queues

  • Author

    Blanchet, Jose ; Jing Dong

  • Author_Institution
    Ind. Eng. & Oper. Res. Dept., Columbia Univ., New York, NY, USA
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    9-12 Dec. 2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    12
  • Abstract
    Given a marked renewal point process (assuming that the marks are i.i.d.) we say that an unbounded region is stable if it contains finitely many points of the point process with probability one. In this paper we provide algorithms that allow to sample these finitely many points efficiently. We explain how exact simulation of the steady-state measure valued state descriptor of the infinite server queue follows as a simple corollary of our algorithms. We provide numerical evidence supporting that our algorithms are not only theoretically sound but also practical. Finally, having simulation optimization in mind, we also apply our results to gradient estimation of steady-state performance measures.
  • Keywords
    gradient methods; optimisation; probability; queueing theory; sampling methods; simulation; gradient estimation; infinite server queue; marked renewal point process; probability; queue simulation; sampling point process; simulation optimization; stable unbounded region; steady-state measure valued state descriptor; steady-state performance measures; Algorithm design and analysis; Numerical models; Optimization; Queueing analysis; Random variables; Servers; Steady-state;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Simulation Conference (WSC), Proceedings of the 2012 Winter
  • Conference_Location
    Berlin
  • ISSN
    0891-7736
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-4779-2
  • Electronic_ISBN
    0891-7736
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/WSC.2012.6465250
  • Filename
    6465250