ANALYSIS OF A PARTIAL BUFFER SHARING SCHEME FOR A FINITE BUFFER WITH BATCH POISSON INPUTS

A partial buffer sharing scheme is proposed as loss-priority control f or a finite buffer with batch inputs. A partial batch acceptance strat egy is used for a batch arriving at a finite buffer. Customer loss pro babilities for high- and low-prioriry customers are derived under this batch acceptance strategy using a supplementary variable method that is a standard for queueing analysis. A comparison of the partial buffe r sharing scheme and a system without loss-priority control is made in terms of admissible offered load.