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# Heavy-tailed queues in the Halfin-Whitt regime

@article{Goldberg2017HeavytailedQI,
title={Heavy-tailed queues in the Halfin-Whitt regime},
author={David Alan Goldberg and Yuan Li},
journal={arXiv: Probability},
year={2017}
}
• Published 25 July 2017
• Mathematics, Computer Science
• arXiv: Probability
We consider the FCFS G/G/n queue in the Halfin-Whitt regime, in the presence of heavy-tailed distributions (i.e. infinite variance). We prove that under minimal assumptions, i.e. only that processing times have finite 1 + epsilon moment and inter-arrival times have finite second moment, the sequence of stationary queue length distributions, normalized by $n^{\frac{1}{2}}$, is tight. All previous tightness results for the stationary queue length required that processing times have finite 2…
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