EVALUATING THE TRANSIENT BEHAVIOR OF QUEUEING SYSTEMS VIA SIMULATION AND TRANSFER FUNCTION MODELING

Characterizing the transient behavior of queueing systems is a difficult problem, which has been addressed by either simplified analytical models or simulation. We seek to capture the transient performance of systems from a new perspective: based on high-fidelity simulation experiments, we estimate a number of transfer function models (the discrete approximations of those ODEs provided by an analytical approach) which characterizes the evolution of the system’s dynamic behavior.