Abstract:Motivated by applications in online marketplaces such as ride-hailing platforms and payment channel networks, we study a single-server queue with state-dependent arrival control. The service operator dynamically chooses the arrival rate as a function of the current queue length and receives a reward determined by the induced rate, capturing objectives such as throughput, revenue, or social welfare. The goal is to design control policies that simultaneously achieve high long-run operating reward and low congestion, measured by the expected steady-state queue length.
We adopt a regret-based framework relative to an optimal benchmark and characterize the efficiency--reward trade-off under an $\varepsilon$-optimal reward constraint. Our results reveal a sharp dichotomy between small-market and large-market regimes. In small markets, including state-independent policies, any admissible control incurs poor efficiency, with the expected queue length growing on the order of $1/\varepsilon$. In contrast, in large markets, state-dependent policies can achieve substantially better performance. When the reward function exhibits sufficient curvature, the optimal queue length scales as $\Theta(1/\sqrt{\varepsilon})$; otherwise, it scales as $\Theta(\log(1/\varepsilon))$.
For each regime, we establish universal lower bounds on the achievable efficiency and construct simple state-dependent policies that attain these bounds. Our results provide a non-asymptotic heavy-traffic characterization for queues with dynamic arrivals and offer structural insights into the design of efficient pricing and admission control policies.
From: Tianze Qu [view email]
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