2019 Theses Doctoral
Periodic Little's law
In this dissertation, we develop the theory of the periodic Little's law (PLL) as well as discussing one of its applications. As extensions of the famous Little's law, the PLL applies to the queueing systems where the underlying processes are strictly or asymptotically periodic. We give a sample-path version, a steady-state stochastic version and a central-limit-theorem version of the PLL in the first part. We also discuss closely related issues such as sufficient conditions for the central-limit-theorem version of the PLL and the weak convergence in countably infinite dimensional vector space which is unconventional in queueing theory.
The PLL provides a way to estimate the occupancy level indirectly. We show how to construct a real-time predictor for the occupancy level inspired by the PLL as an example of its applications, which has better forecasting performance than the direct estimators.
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More About This Work
- Academic Units
- Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
- Thesis Advisors
- Whitt, Ward
- Degree
- Ph.D., Columbia University
- Published Here
- April 24, 2019