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Publication
IFIP WG 7.3 Performance 2015
Conference paper
Heavy-traffic behavior of the maxweight algorithm in a switch with uniform traffic
Abstract
We consider a switch with uniform traffic operating under the MaxWeight scheduling algorithm. This traffic pattern is interesting to study in the heavy-traffic regime since the queue lengths exhibit a multi-dimensional state-space collapse. We use a Lyapunov-type drift technique to characterize the heavy-traffic behavior of the expectation of the sum queue lengths in steady-state. Specifically, in the case of Bernoulli arrivals, we show that the heavy-traffic scaled queue length is " n - 3 2 + 1 2n # . Our result implies that the MaxWeight algorithm has optimal queue-length scaling behavior in the heavy-traffic regime with respect to the size of a switch with a uniform traffic pattern. This settles the heavy-traffic version of an open conjecture.