A number of emerging Internet applications such as videoconferencing and live multimedia broadcasts from Internet TV stations will rely on scheduling algorithms in switches and routers to guarantee performance and an acceptable level of quality of service. Fairness in packet schedulers is an intuitively desirable property with practical value; fair schedulers such as Weighted Fair Queueing are ...

Previously, we have analyzed the short-term fairness of the 802.11 DCF (Distributed Coordination Function) access method in the case of a network with two hosts. In this paper we extend the analysis to an increased number of hosts. We use two fairness indices. The first one is the number of inter-transmissions that other hosts may perform between two transmissions of a given host. The second in...

background: households’ financial protection against health payments and expenditures and equity in utilization of health care services are of the most important tasks of governments. this study aims to measuring equity in household’s health care payments according to fairness in financial contribution (ffc) and kakwani indices in tehran-iran, 2013. methods: this cross-sectional study was condu...

************************************************************************ ATM Forum Document Number: ATM_Forum/99-0045 ************************************************************************ Title: Throughput Fairness Index: An Explanation ************************************************************************ Abstract: The performance testing document uses a particular function to quantify fa...

The tradeoff between fairness and throughput has been widely observed in network analysis and protocol design. Despite many existing fairness metrics (from simple ones like Jain’s index to more complex ones like α-fair utility), the meaning of fairness is largely based on problemoriented interpretations and judgments, with no well-established framework. To tackle this challenging problem, we pr...

ATM Forum Document Number: ATM_Forum/99-0045 ************************************************************************ Title: Throughput Fairness Index: An Explanation ************************************************************************ Abstract: The performance testing document uses a particular function to quantify fairness. This contribution explains the reasons for the selection of the p...

In this paper, in order to improve fairness index of TCP flows, we propose the TSW3CDM_FS(Time Sliding Window Three Color Dynamic Marker with Flow Status) based on average transfer rate estimation. The proposed algorithm is based on dynamic marking policy that allocates band-width in proportion to transmission rate of flows. From simulation results, the TSW3CDM_FS algorithm improves fairness in...

background: households’ financial protection against health payments and expenditures and equity in utilization of health care services are of the most important tasks of governments. this study aims to measuring equity in household’s health care payments according to fairness in financial contribution (ffc) and kakwani indices in tehran-iran, 2013. methods: this cross-sectional study was condu...

Recently various schedulers exploiting multiuser diversity in wireless networks have been proposed and studied. Although the utilization of multiuser diversity can increase the information theoretic capacity, there exists a tradeoff between the capacity and fairness. Among schedulers exploiting multiuser diversity, the one-bit feedback fair scheduler is considered as an attractive choice for th...

Unfair pricing policies have been shown to be one of the most negative perceptions customers can have concerning pricing, and may result in long-term losses for a company. Despite the fact that dynamic pricing models help companies maximize revenue, fairness and equality should be taken into account in order to avoid unfair price differences between groups of customers. This paper shows how to ...