Research Article
Revisiting inter-flow fairness
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/BROADNETS.2008.4769146, author={Saleem Bhatti and Martin Bateman and Devan Rehunathan and Tristan Henderson and Greg Bigwood and Dimitrios Miras}, title={Revisiting inter-flow fairness}, proceedings={5th International ICST Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems}, publisher={IEEE}, proceedings_a={BROADNETS}, year={2010}, month={5}, keywords={}, doi={10.1109/BROADNETS.2008.4769146} }- Saleem Bhatti
Martin Bateman
Devan Rehunathan
Tristan Henderson
Greg Bigwood
Dimitrios Miras
Year: 2010
Revisiting inter-flow fairness
BROADNETS
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/BROADNETS.2008.4769146
Abstract
Many new transport protocols are being defined, including, for example, variants of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), to better match the requirements of new applications. A key issue in the evaluation of protocol flows, in terms of their performance, is how fair they are to other flows. Specifically, it is important to understand how a mix of existing and/or new protocols will interact with each other when using the same network resources. Such observations help to inform protocol design, and allow an assessment of potential impacts on users. We present a simple, yet effective, methodology for examining a specific case of inter-flow fairness based solely on measurements of flow performance. As well as using an existing fairness metric, we propose a new metric which provides a richer information summary for the evaluation of fairness.