Article ID: | iaor20013118 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 31 |
Issue: | 3 |
Start Page Number: | 795 |
End Page Number: | 818 |
Publication Date: | Sep 1999 |
Journal: | Advances in Applied Probability |
Authors: | Alanyali Murat |
Keywords: | networks |
Management of a bufferless resource is considered under non-homogeneous demand consisting of one-unit and two-unit requests. Two-unit requests can be served only by a given partition of the resource. Three simple admission policies are evaluated with regard to revenue generation. One policy involves no admission control and two policies involve trunk reservation. A limiting regime in which demand and capacity increase in proportion is considered. It is shown that each policy is asymptotically optimal for a certain range of parameters. Limiting dynamical behavior is obtained via a theory developed by Hunt and Kurtz. The results also point out the remarkable effect of partition constraints.