Cooperative Dynamics of Loyal Customers in Queueing Networks

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serval:BIB_2345CD033245
Type
Article: article d'un périodique ou d'un magazine.
Collection
Publications
Titre
Cooperative Dynamics of Loyal Customers in Queueing Networks
Périodique
Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering
Auteur⸱e⸱s
Gallay O., Hongler M.-O.
ISSN
1004-3756
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
06/2008
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
17
Numéro
2
Pages
241-254
Langue
anglais
Résumé
We consider queueing networks (QN's) with feedback loops roamed by "intelligent" agents, able to select their routing on the basis of their measured waiting times at the QN nodes. This is an idealized model to discuss the dynamics of customers who stay loyal to a service supplier, provided their service time remains below a critical threshold. For these QN's, we show that the traffic flows may exhibit collective patterns typically encountered in multi-agent systems. In simple network topologies, the emergent cooperative behaviors manifest themselves via stable macroscopic temporal oscillations, synchronization of the queue contents and stabilization by noise phenomena. For a wide range of control parameters, the underlying presence of the law of large numbers enables us to use deterministic evolution laws to analytically characterize the cooperative evolution of our multi-agent systems. In particular, we study the case where the servers are sporadically subject, to failures altering their ordinary behavior.
Mots-clé
Queueing networks with feedback loops, Loyal customers, Cooperation, Stable temporal oscillations, Synchronization, Stabilization by noise
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