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Delay Differential Equation Models for Queueing Theory

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Doldo_cornellgrad_0058F_13056.pdf (9.7 MB)
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https://doi.org/10.7298/8w6q-fr63
https://hdl.handle.net/1813/111698
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Author
Doldo, Philip
Abstract

In many service systems, customers are often presented with information about queue lengths or waiting times. This information has the potential to influence the decisions of customers on whether or not to join a queue to receive service. However, it is often the case that the information that customers receive is not given in real time and has some inherent delay. For example, the information provided could be updated periodically and therefore the customer receives information about the system from some time in the past. In this thesis, we focus our attention on fluid models of queueing systems. Generally, the fluid models in this thesis are the limiting objects of scaled stochastic systems and take the form of delay differential equations. We show that the dynamics of the queueing system can change dramatically depending on how large the delay in information is. Thus, our main goal in this thesis is to explore and understand how the type of delay and the size of the delay impact the underlying dynamics of different queueing models.

Description
234 pages
Date Issued
2022-05
Keywords
delay differential equations
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delayed information
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distributed delay equations
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functional differential equation
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Hopf bifurcation
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queueing theory
Committee Chair
Pender, Jamol J.
Committee Member
Rand, Richard Herbert
Dai, Jim
Degree Discipline
Applied Mathematics
Degree Name
Ph. D., Applied Mathematics
Degree Level
Doctor of Philosophy
Rights
Attribution 4.0 International
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Type
dissertation or thesis
Link(s) to Catalog Record
https://newcatalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/15529937

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