On a Problem Concerning a Central Storage Device Served by Multiple Terminals

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On a Problem Concerning a Central Storage Device Served by Multiple Terminals

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Journal of the ACM (JACM) archive
Volume 12 , Issue 3 (July 1965) table of contents

Pages: 350 - 355

Year of Publication: 1965

ISSN:0004-5411

Author

M. V. Menon

San Jose Research Laboratory, IBM Corporation, San Jose, California

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

A storage or processing device with a fixed number of cells in considered. If a chance-mechanism selects which of M persons is to transmit an element of message to the device, the probability is found that the device will be filled without a complete message having been introduced into it. This probability should be useful in determining the “optimum” number of persons who can use the device. The problem is treated as one in an M-dimensional random walk.

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Donald P. Gaver, Jr. , Peter A. W. Lewis, Probability Models for Buffer Storage Allocation Problems, Journal of the ACM (JACM), v.18 n.2, p.186-198, April 1971

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D. Software
D.4 OPERATING SYSTEMS