Stochasticity of probabilistic systems: analysis methodologies case-study

Abstract

We do a case study of two different analysis techniques for studying the stochastic behavior of a randomized system/algorithms: (i) The first approach can be broadly termed as a mean value analysis (MVA), where the evolution of the mean state is studied assuming that the system always actually resides in the mean state; (ii) The second approach looks at the probability distribution function of the system states at any time instance, thus studying the evolution of the (probability mass) distribution function (EoDF)