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van der, J. (1992). Upper and lower bounds for the waiting time in the symmetric shortest queue system. (Memorandum COSOR; Vol. 9209). Eindhoven: Technische Universiteit Eindhoven. General rightsCopyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights.• Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research.• You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain • You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal ? Take down policyIf you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. ABSTRACTIn this paper we compare the exponential symmetric shortest queue system with two related systems: the shortest queue system with threshold jockeying and the shortest queue system with threshold blocking. The latter two systems are easier to analyse and are shown to give tight lower and upper bounds respectively for the mean waiting time in the shortest queue system. The approach also gives bounds for the distribution of the total number of jobs in the system.

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