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Long term behavior of dynamic equilibria in fluid queuing networks

Cominetti, Roberto, Correa, Jose and Olver, Neil ORCID: 0000-0001-8897-5459 (2017) Long term behavior of dynamic equilibria in fluid queuing networks. In: IPCO: International Conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, CAN, pp. 161-172.

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Identification Number: 10.1007/978-3-319-59250-3_14

Abstract

A fluid queuing network constitutes one of the simplest models in which to study flow dynamics over a network. In this model we have a single source-sink pair and each link has a per-time-unit capacity and a transit time. A dynamic equilibrium (or equilibrium flow over time) is a flow pattern over time such that no flow particle has incentives to unilaterally change its path. Although the model has been around for almost fifty years, only recently results regarding existence and characterization of equilibria have been obtained. In particular the long term behavior remains poorly understood. Our main result in this paper is to show that, under a natural (and obviously necessary) condition on the queuing capacity, a dynamic equilibrium reaches a steady state (after which queue lengths remain constant) in finite time. Previously, it was not even known that queue lengths would remain bounded. The proof is based on the analysis of a rather non-obvious potential function that turns out to be monotone along the evolution of the equilibrium. Furthermore, we show that the steady state is characterized as an optimal solution of a certain linear program. When this program has a unique solution, which occurs generically, the long term behavior is completely predictable. On the contrary, if the linear program has multiple solutions the steady state is more difficult to identify as it depends on the whole temporal evolution of the equilibrium.

Item Type: Book Section
Official URL: http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/ipco2017/
Additional Information: © 2017 Springer International Publishing AG
Divisions: Mathematics
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics
Date Deposited: 20 Jan 2020 10:00
Last Modified: 08 Jan 2024 21:12
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/103117

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