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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Simulation Conference (WSC), Proceedings of the 2012 Winter
Conference_Location :
Berlin
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4779-2
Electronic_ISBN :
0891-7736
DOI :
10.1109/WSC.2012.6465250