| Article ID: | iaor20082795 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 35 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Start Page Number: | 311 |
| End Page Number: | 318 |
| Publication Date: | May 2007 |
| Journal: | Operations Research Letters |
| Authors: | Avi-Itzhak Benjamin, Levy Hanoch, Raz David |
| Keywords: | measurement |
Sojourn time variance is widely used as an indication of queue unfairness. We demonstrate that this quantity has a disadvantage, since it is not local to the busy period in which it is measured. We show that RAQFM, a recently proposed queue fairness metric, does possess such a locality property.