Large Deviation Asymptotics for the Supermarket Model with Growing Choices

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Main Authors: Budhiraja, Amarjit, Wu, Ruoyu
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author Budhiraja, Amarjit
Wu, Ruoyu
author_facet Budhiraja, Amarjit
Wu, Ruoyu
contents We consider the Markovian supermarket model with growing choices, where jobs arrive at rate $nλ_n$ and each of $n$ parallel servers processes jobs in its queue at rate $1$. Each incoming job joins the shortest among $d_n \in \{1,\dotsc,n\}$ randomly selected queues. Under the assumption $d_n \to \infty$ and $λ_n \to λ\in (0,\infty)$ as $n\to \infty$, a large deviation principle (LDP) for the occupancy process is established in a suitable infinite-dimensional path space, and it is shown that the rate function is invariant with respect to the manner in which $d_n \to \infty$. The LDP gives information on the rate of decay of probabilities of various types of rare events associated with the system. We illustrate this by establishing explicit exponential decay rates for probabilities of large total number of jobs in the system. As a corollary, we also show that probabilities of certain rare events can indeed depend on the rate of $d_n \to \infty$.
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spellingShingle Large Deviation Asymptotics for the Supermarket Model with Growing Choices
Budhiraja, Amarjit
Wu, Ruoyu
Probability
Optimization and Control
60F10, 60J74, 34H05, 90B15
We consider the Markovian supermarket model with growing choices, where jobs arrive at rate $nλ_n$ and each of $n$ parallel servers processes jobs in its queue at rate $1$. Each incoming job joins the shortest among $d_n \in \{1,\dotsc,n\}$ randomly selected queues. Under the assumption $d_n \to \infty$ and $λ_n \to λ\in (0,\infty)$ as $n\to \infty$, a large deviation principle (LDP) for the occupancy process is established in a suitable infinite-dimensional path space, and it is shown that the rate function is invariant with respect to the manner in which $d_n \to \infty$. The LDP gives information on the rate of decay of probabilities of various types of rare events associated with the system. We illustrate this by establishing explicit exponential decay rates for probabilities of large total number of jobs in the system. As a corollary, we also show that probabilities of certain rare events can indeed depend on the rate of $d_n \to \infty$.
title Large Deviation Asymptotics for the Supermarket Model with Growing Choices
topic Probability
Optimization and Control
60F10, 60J74, 34H05, 90B15
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08586