There are many medium access control (MAC) protocols proposed to achieve fairness in presence of hidden and/or exposed nodes. In [2] a general approach to address the propblem of fairness is proposed. This approach defines a fairness index and the goal is to minimize this fairness index to achieve fairness. in this paper we propose a fairness index by taking into account both node’s data traffi...

resource allocation techniques have recently appeared as a widely recognized feature in lte networks. most of existing approaches in resource allocation focus on maximizing network’s utility functions. the great potential of utility function in improving resource allocation and enhancing fairness and mean opinion score (mos) indexes has attracted large efforts over the last few years. in this p...

Resource allocation techniques have recently appeared as a widely recognized feature in LTE networks. Most of existing approaches in resource allocation focus on maximizing network’s utility functions. The great potential of utility function in improving resource allocation and enhancing fairness and mean opinion score (MOS) indexes has attracted large efforts over the last few years. In this p...

Fairness is an important performance criterion in all resource allocation schemes, including those in distributed computer systems. However, it is often specified only qualitatively. The quantitative measures proposed in the literature are either too specific to a particular application, or suffer from some undesirable characteristics. In this paper, we have introduced a quantitative measure ca...

The important issue of an adaptive scheduling scheme is to maximize throughput while providing fair services to all users, especially under strict quality of service requirements. To achieve this goal, we consider the problem of multiuser scheduling under a given fairness constraint. A novel Adaptive Fairness and Throughput Control (AFTC) approach is proposed to maximize the network throughput ...

We develop a set of five axioms for fairness measures in resource allocation: the axiom of continuity, of homogeneity, of saturation, of partition, and of starvation. We prove that there is a unique family of fairness measures satisfying the axioms, which is constructed and then shown to include Atkinson’s index, αfairness, Jain’s index, entropy, and other “decomposable” global measures of fair...

In this paper, we present a proportional fairness with bandwidthborrowing (PFBB) scheme for a two-tier NEMO system. When traffic load is light, free-slot borrowing is employed to maximize system utilization. On the other hand, when traffic load is heavy and session arrival rates in different tiers are not proportional to their distributed areas, busy-slot borrowing is used to achieve proportion...

Since the utilization of multiuser diversity in wireless networks can increase the information theoretic capacity, much attention has been paid to schedulers exploiting multiuser diversity. It is known that there exists a tradeoff between the capacity and fairness achieved by schedulers exploiting multiuser diversity. Due to its good balance between the capacity and fairness, the one-bit feedba...