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Queuing Systems in Which the Discipline is “Last-Come, First-Served”

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  • David M. C. Wishart

    (Department of Pure Mathematics, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England)

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In this paper we compare the waiting-time distributions under different queue disciplines of customers in a single-server queuing system with Poisson input and general (independent) service time. To make the comparison it is necessary to know the distribution of the unexpended service time at a moment of arrival, and the distribution of busy periods. These are discussed and it is shown that the variance of the waiting-time distribution when the queue discipline is “last-come, first-served” is greater (whatever the service-time distribution) than the corresponding variance when the queue discipline is “first-come, first-served.” The same comparison is also discussed (and is shown to be simpler) for the system with general independent input and negative exponential distribution of service times.

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  • David M. C. Wishart, 1960. "Queuing Systems in Which the Discipline is “Last-Come, First-Served”," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 8(5), pages 591-599, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:oropre:v:8:y:1960:i:5:p:591-599
    DOI: 10.1287/opre.8.5.591
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