## Large deviations problems for star networks: the min policy.(English)Zbl 1047.60021

Summary: We are interested in analyzing the effect of bandwidth sharing for telecommunication networks. More precisely, we want to calculate which routes are bottlenecks by means of large deviations techniques. The method is illustrated on a star network, where the bandwidth is shared between customers according to the so-called min policy. We prove a sample path large deviation principle for a rescaled process $$n^{-1}Q_{nt}$$, where $$Q_t$$ represents the joint number of connections at time $$t$$. The main result is to compute the rate function explicitly. The major step consists in deriving large deviation bounds for an empirical generator constructed from the joint number of customers and arrivals on each route. The rest of the analysis relies on a suitable change of measure together with a localization procedure. An example shows how this can be used practically.

### MSC:

 60F10 Large deviations 60K25 Queueing theory (aspects of probability theory) 60K30 Applications of queueing theory (congestion, allocation, storage, traffic, etc.) 90B18 Communication networks in operations research
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