Efficient Heuristics for Simulating Population Overflow in Parallel Networks

Zaburnenko, Tatiana S. and Nicola, Victor F. (2006) Efficient Heuristics for Simulating Population Overflow in Parallel Networks. In: Russian-Scandinavian Symposium on Probability Theory and Applied Probability, 2006, 26-31 August 2006, Petrozavodsk, Russia.

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Abstract:	In this paper we propose a state-dependent importance sampling heuristic to estimate the probability of population overflow in networks of parallel queues. This heuristic approximates the “optimal” state-dependent change of measure without the need for costly optimization involved in other recently proposed adaptive algorithms. Preliminary results from simulations of networks with up to 4 parallel queues and different traffic intensities yield asymptotically efficient estimates (with relative error increasing sublinearly in the overflow level) where state-independent importance sampling is ineffective.
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Faculty:	Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS)
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