Low State Fairness: Lower Bounds and Practical Enforcement
Debojyoti Dutta, Abhimanyu Das, Ashish Goel, Ahmed Helmy and John Heidemann
USC/Information Sciences Institute
Citation
Debojyoti Dutta, Abhimanyu Das, Ashish Goel, Ahmed Helmy and John Heidemann. Low State Fairness: Lower Bounds and Practical Enforcement. Proceedings of the IEEE Infocom (Miami, Florida, USA, Mar. 2005), to appear. [PDF] [alt PDF]
Abstract
Providing approximate max-min fair bandwidth allocation among flows within a network or at a single router has been an important research problem. In this paper, we study the space complexity of fairness algorithms, and the communication complexity of distributed global fairness algorithms. We show that in order to enforce max-min fairness with bounded errors, a router must maintain per-flow state. Then we present a practical edge-marking based architecture to demonstrate the enforcement of approximate global max-min fairness for representative scenarios with multiple bottlenecks and non-responsive traffic. We validate our architecture using packet level simulations.Bibtex Citation
@inproceedings{Dutta05b,
author = {Dutta, Debojyoti and Das, Abhimanyu and Goel, Ashish and Helmy, Ahmed and Heidemann, John},
title = {Low State Fairness: Lower Bounds and Practical Enforcement},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE Infocom},
year = {2005},
sortdate = {2005-03-01},
project = {ant, saman},
jsubject = {networking},
publisher = {IEEE},
address = {Miami, Florida, USA},
month = mar,
pages = {to appear},
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