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On a storage allocation model with finite capacity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2016

EUNJU SOHN  and
CHARLES KNESSL
EUNJU SOHN
Affiliation:
Department of Science and Mathematics, Columbia College Chicago, 600 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60605-1996, USA email: esohn@colum.edu
CHARLES KNESSL
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607-7045, USA email: knessl@uic.edu
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Abstract

We consider a storage allocation model with a finite number of storage spaces. There are m primary spaces that are ranked {1,2,. . .,m} and R secondary spaces ranked {m + 1, m + 2,. . .,m + R}. Items arrive according to a Poisson process, occupy a space for a random exponentially distributed time, and an arriving item takes the lowest ranked available space. Letting N1 and N2 denote the numbers of occupied primary and secondary spaces, we study the joint distribution Prob[N1 = k, N2 = r] in the steady state. The joint process (N1, N2) behaves as a random walk in a lattice rectangle. We shall obtain explicit expressions for the distribution of (N1, N2), as well as the marginal distribution of N2. We also give some numerical studies to illustrate the qualitative behaviors of the distribution(s). The main contribution is to study the effects of a finite secondary capacity R, whereas previous studies had R = ∞.

Keywords

dynamic storage allocationfinite capacityPoisson processrandom walksteady-state joint distributionwasted spaceErlang loss modelmaximum occupied space
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European Journal of Applied Mathematics , Volume 27 , Issue 5 , October 2016 , pp. 738 - 755
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 

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