\(V\)-uniform ergodicity for state-dependent single class queueing networks (Q972686): Difference between revisions

The paper considers single class queueing networks in which arrival and service rates depend on the state of the network. The primary result is concerned with a rate of convergence to the steady-state distribution. Under the uniform (in state) stability condition, it is shown that the queue length process is \(V\)-uniformly ergodic; that is, it has a transition probability kernel which converges to its limit geometrically quickly in the \(V\)-norm sense. As consequences of \(V\)-uniform ergodicity, one can obtain several meaningful asymptotic properties of the process such as a strong form of the large deviation principle and mixing results, a functional central limit theorem and a Strassen-type functional law of the iterated logarithm result. The proofs rely on a critical use of the Lyapunov function methods.