Fluid approach to two-sided Markov-modulated Brownian motion

Guy Latouche, Giang T. Nguyen

Published 2014-03-11Version 1

We extend to Markov-modulated Brownian motion (MMBM) the renewal approach which has been successfully applied to the analysis of Markov-modulated fluid models. It has recently been shown that MMBM may be expressed as the limit of a parameterized family of Markov-modulated fluid models. We prove that the weak convergence also holds for systems with two reflecting boundaries, one at zero and one at $b >0$, and that the stationary distributions of the approximating fluid models converge to the stationary distribution of the two-sided reflected MMBM. Thus, we obtain a new representation for the stationary distribution, effectively separating the limiting behaviour of the process at the boundaries from its behaviour in the interior of $(0,b)$.