An Exact Comparison of the Waiting Times Under Three Priority Rules

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.19.2.414

This paper compares the waiting times of customers under three priority rules: the order-of-arrival rule, the shortest processing time (within a generation) first, and the longest processing time (within a generation) first. In particular, the covariance matrix of the trivariate distribution of the equilibrium waiting times is obtained explicitly.

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