Title
On the twin measure and system predictability and fairness
Abstract
Two identical customers with deterministically identical service times arrive at a queueing system simultaneously (Twins), but leave the system 2 hours apart. Is their sojourn time predictable? Is the system fair? We propose a novel measure based on the principle that in a predictable and fair system, "twin" customers should not depart the system very far apart. We analyze this measure for a number of common service policies and compare the results. We compare the results to those of other fairness and predictability approaches proposed recently and discuss its usefulness.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1145/1215956.1215964
SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review
Keywords
Field
DocType
novel measure,system predictability,common service policy,sojourn time,twin measure,system fair,deterministically identical service time,fair system,queueing system,identical customer
Predictability,Computer science,Real-time computing,Network information theory,Queueing system
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
34
3
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
David Raz1234.97
Hanoch Levy255969.67
Benjamin Avi-Itzhak3569.41