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The sojourn time in the GI/M/1 queue by processor sharing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

V. Ramaswami*
Affiliation:
Bell Communications Research, Inc.
*
Postal address: Bell Communications Research, Inc., Rm 4K420, Crawfords Corner Rd, Holmdel, NJ 07733, U.S.A.

Abstract

A queueing model of considerable interest in computer engineering is the processor-sharing model in which the server shares its fixed capacity equally among all units present in the system. Here, we derive the mean and the variance of the equilibrium sojourn time, and deduce that the variance of the sojourn time is larger for the processor-sharing model than for the corresponding FCFS model.

Type
Short Communications
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1984 

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