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Queues with Delays in Two-State Strategies and Lévy Input

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

R. Bekker*
Affiliation:
Vrije Universiteit
O. J. Boxma*
Affiliation:
EURANDOM and Eindhoven University of Technology
O. Kella*
Affiliation:
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
*
Postal address: Department of Mathematics, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1081a, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Email address: rbekker@few.vu.nl
∗∗Postal address: Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, PO Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
∗∗∗Postal address: Department of Statistics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, 91905, Israel.
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Abstract

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We consider a reflected Lévy process without negative jumps, starting at the origin. When the reflected process first upcrosses level K, a timer is activated. After D time units, the timer expires and the Lévy exponent of the Lévy process is changed. As soon as the process hits zero again, the Lévy exponent reverses to the original function. If the process has reached the origin before the timer expires then the Lévy exponent does not change. Using martingale techniques, we analyze the steady-state distribution of the resulting process, reflected at the origin. We pay special attention to the cases of deterministic and exponential timers, and to the following three special Lévy processes: (i) a compound Poisson process plus negative drift (corresponding to an M/G/1 queue), (ii) Brownian motion, and (iii) a Lévy process that is a subordinator until the timer expires.

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Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 2008 

Footnotes

Supported by grant 964/06 from the Israel Science Foundation.

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