Fairness is an inherent and fundamental factor of queue service disciplines in a large variety of queueing applications, ranging
from airport waiting lines to computer queueing systems. We study a newly proposed measure, a Resource Allocation Queueing
Fairness Measure (RAQFM), first introduced in Raz, Levy, and Avi-Itzhak (Perform. Eval. Rev. 32(1):130–141,
2004). We analyze the properties of RAQFM and tie them to intuition, provide bounds for its values, and discuss briefly how it
yields to analysis.
Keywords Job fairness - Processor sharing - Resource allocation - Unfairness
Mathematics Subject Classification (2000) 68M20 - 90B36 - 60K25
This work was supported in part by the Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology, grant number 380-801, and by EURO-NGI network
of excellence.