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A Terminal Bay Relief Strategy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2009

R. D. Doverspik
R. D. Doverspik
Affiliation:
Bell Communications Research 331 Newman Springs Road Red Bank, New Jersey 07701
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Abstract

This paper explores a new, more optimal policy for planning terminal bays for the provisioning of circuits in a telephone operating company. This new policy regularly monitors the terminal bay inventory and orders K units when the spare reaches a certain parameter, R. For particular office characteristics the optimal (R, K) pair which minimizes cost is determined, subject to a performance constraint. A probabilistic circuit demand model is formulated and a combination of simulation and analytic approximation is used to calculate the cost and performance measure. In order to prove that the new policy is more economical, the new policy is compared, via another simulation, to the present policy of a typical telephone operating company.

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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences , Volume 1 , Issue 4 , October 1987 , pp. 481 - 496
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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