| Article ID: | iaor20043375 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 32 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 73 |
| End Page Number: | 76 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2004 |
| Journal: | Operations Research Letters |
| Authors: | Bansal Nikhil, Wierman Adam, Harchol-Balter Mor |
| Keywords: | M/G/1 queues |
We compare the overall mean response time (a.k.a. sojourn time) of the processor sharing (PS) and feedback (FB) queues under and M/GI/1 system. We show that FB outperforms PS under service distributions having decreasing failure rates; whereas PS outperforms FB under service distributions having increasing failure rates.