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Knowledge vs. Experience: Asymptotic Limits of Impatience in Edge Tenants

Published: November 14, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2511.13763v1

By: Anthony Kiggundu, Bin Han, Hans D. Schotten

Potential Business Impact:

Helps waiting lines move faster and fairer.

Business Areas:
A/B Testing Data and Analytics

We study how two information feeds, a closed-form Markov estimator of residual sojourn and an online trained actor-critic, affect reneging and jockeying in a dual M/M/1 system. Analytically, for unequal service rates and total-time patience, we show that total wait grows linearly so abandonment is inevitable and the probability of a successful jockey vanishes as the backlog approaches towards infinity. Furthermore, under a mild sub-linear error condition both information models yield the same asymptotic limits (robustness). We empirically validate these limits and quantify finite backlog differences. Our findings show that learned and analytic feeds produce different delays, reneging rates and transient jockeying behavior at practical sizes, but converge to the same asymptotic outcome implied by our theory. The results characterize when value-of-information matters (finite regimes) and when it does not (asymptotics), informing lightweight telemetry and decision-logic design for low-cost, jockeying-aware systems.

Page Count
7 pages

Category
Statistics:
Machine Learning (Stat)