Approximating stationary measures of structured continuous-time Markov models using matrix diagrams

  • Authors:
  • Gianfranco Ciardo;Andrew S. Miner;Min Wan;Andy Jinqing Yu

  • Affiliations:
  • University of California at Riverside;Iowa State University;University of California at Riverside;University of California at Riverside

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We consider the stationary solution of large ergodic continuous-time Markov chains (CTMCs) with a finite state space S, i.e., the computation of π as solution of π · Q = 0 subject to ∑iεsπ[i] = 1, where Q coincides with transition rate matrix R except in its diagonal elements, Q[i, i] = - ∑jεs R [i, j].