Analysis of stochastic online bin packing processes
David Gamarnik, Mark S. Squillante
Stochastic Models
The Skorokhod problem arises in studying reflected Brownian motion (RBM) and the associated fluid model on the non-negative orthant. This problem specifically arises in the context of queueing networks in the heavy traffic regime. One of the key problems is that of determining, for a given deterministic Skorokhod problem, whether for every initial condition all solutions of the problem staring from the initial condition are attracted to the origin. The conditions for this attraction property, called stability, are known in dimension up to three, but not for general dimensions. In this paper we explain the fundamental difficulties encountered in trying to establish stability conditions for general dimensions. We prove the existence of dimension (Formula presented.) such that stability of the Skorokhod problem associated with a fluid model of an RBM in dimension (Formula presented.) is an undecidable property, when the starting state is a part of the input. Namely, there does not exist an algorithm (a constructive procedure) for identifying stable Skorokhod problem in dimensions (Formula presented.).
David Gamarnik, Mark S. Squillante
Stochastic Models
David Gamarnik
Queueing Systems
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