## Journal of Applied Probability

### A geometric drift inequality for a reflected fractional Brownian motion process on the positive orthant

Chihoon Lee

#### Abstract

We study a d-dimensional reflected fractional Brownian motion (RFBM) process on the positive orthant S = R+d, with drift r0Rd and Hurst parameter H ∈ (½, 1). Under a natural stability condition on the drift vector r0 and reflection directions, we establish a geometric drift towards a compact set for the 1-skeleton chain Z̆ of the RFBM process Z; that is, there exist β, b ∈ (0, ∞) and a compact set CS such that ΔV(x):= Ex[V(Z̆(1))] - V(x) ≤ -βV(x) + b1C(x), xS, for an exponentially growing Lyapunov function V : S → [1, ∞). For a wide class of Markov processes, such a drift inequality is known as a necessary and sufficient condition for exponential ergodicity. Indeed, similar drift inequalities have been established for reflected processes driven by standard Brownian motions, and our result can be viewed as their fractional Brownian motion counterpart. We also establish that the return times to the set C itself are geometrically bounded. Motivation for this study is that RFBM appears as a limiting workload process for fluid queueing network models fed by a large number of heavy-tailed ON/OFF sources in heavy traffic.

#### Article information

Source
J. Appl. Probab., Volume 48, Number 3 (2011), 820-831.

Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 23 September 2011

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.jap/1316796917

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1239/jap/1316796917

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR2884818

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1238.60045

#### Citation

Lee, Chihoon. A geometric drift inequality for a reflected fractional Brownian motion process on the positive orthant. J. Appl. Probab. 48 (2011), no. 3, 820--831. doi:10.1239/jap/1316796917. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.jap/1316796917

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