Impact of Fairness on Internet Performance

Thomas Bonald (1) , Laurent Massoulié (1)

1 Orange Labs [Paris]

We discuss the relevance of fairness as a design objective for congestion control mechanisms in the Internet. Specifically, we consider a backbone network shared by a dynamic number of short-lived flows, and study the impact of bandwidth sharing on network performance.

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]; Performance et fiabilité [cs.PF]

Thomas Bonald, Laurent Massoulié. Impact of Fairness on Internet Performance. ACM Sigmetrics / Performance, 2001, Cambridge, United States. ⟨hal-01272522⟩