Data networks (2nd ed.)
The role of computer networks in development
Communications of the ACM
Fair end-to-end window-based congestion control
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
End-to-end congestion control schemes: utility functions, random losses and ECN marks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Flow rate fairness: dismantling a religion
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
A novel proposal to improve fairness in TCP Reno
International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems
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Efficiency and fairness are main objectives in any system design and many choices in life are made based on their tradeoffs. In this paper we introduce a framework for the evaluation of efficiency-fairness tradeoffs that would provide a sound basis for network providers and social planners to provide or plan for an equitable access to the Internet to a diversity of users with different needs and financial possibilities representing mainly developing regions and emerging economies. Control approaches are introduced to address the upraising distortion of fairness concept in IP based networks by using the (α, β) - fairness concept to establish the upper and lower fairness bounds within which the social welfare and the network efficiency are maximized. Although the use of the (α, β) - fairness concept compromises to a certain extent the degree for fairness in resource capacity allocation, it does not jeopardize the utilities for end users or the network provider. Fairness in this context mainly parameterizes tradeoff between services equality and throughput maximization.