Network sharing fairness function with consideration of priority levels

作者：Chen Zhenmin^*; Zhang Chi

来源：Computers & Mathematics with Applications, 2010, 60(9): 2548-2555.

DOI：10.1016/j.camwa.2010.08.044

• Network
• Network performance evaluation
• Resource distribution
• Fairness
• Fairness score function
• Priority level

An important issue of computer network management is to distribute network resource fairly to its users. The first quantitative fairness score function F (x(1), x(2),...,x(n)) was proposed in 1984 by Jain et al. [1] for evaluating network resource sharing fairness. Chen and Zhang (2005) [6] proposed another fairness score function G (x(1),x(2),...,x(n)) which better fits the real world situation in some cases. This paper considers the situation that the users can have different priority levels. A modified fairness score function G* (x(1),x(2),...,x(n); w(1),w(2),...,w(n)) is proposed. The proposed fairness score function can deal with the situation that the network resource users have different priority levels, and can keep all the nice properties of G (x(1),x(2),...,x(n)).

• 出版日期2010-11