Extra Credit – 2 points Consider a queueing system with cust…
Extra Credit – 2 points Consider a queueing system with customers arriving according to a Poisson process at the rate of 5 per hour. Which of the following systems gives the lower steady-state expected time in system (i.e., waiting in line plus service time)? (A) Two “slow” parallel servers, each of whom can serve customers with Exp(3/hour) service times, or (B) One “fast” server, who can serve customers with Exp(6/hour) services?
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