Spontaneous resonances and the coherent states of the queuing networks (Q1012696)

One implication of the Poisson hypothesis for large queueing networks is, roughly speaking, that the flows at the different nodes tend to a constant limit as time tends to infinity. In particular, the system forgets its initial state. In the present paper, the authors give an example of a large queueing network that does not forget its initial state. The idea is to start with a certain three nodes queueing network with two classes of customers that exhibits an oscillative behaviour before it converges to an equilibrium. Then couple a large number \(N\) of such systems in a mean field manner and let \(N\) go to infinity. In the limiting system the periodic oscillative behaviour is preserved even for long times if the average workload is large enough.