A modified resource distribution fairness measure
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: A modified resource distribution fairness measure
zbMATH Open document ID: 1268.91087
DOI: 10.1155/2013/956039
author: Zhenmin Chen
published in: Journal of Mathematics
publication date: 2013-07-25T00:00:00Z
review text: Summary: An important issue of resource distribution is the fairness of the distribution. For example, computer network management wishes to distribute network resource fairly to its users. To describe the fairness of the resource distribution, a quantitative fairness score function \(F(x_1, x_2, \dots, x_n)\) was proposed by \textit{R. Jain, D. Chiu} and \textit{W. Hawe} [``A quantitative measure of fairness and discrimination for resource allocation in shared computer system,'' Technical Report DEC-TR-301, Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, Mass, USA (1984)]. The purpose of this paper is to propose a modified network sharing fairness function so that the users can be treated differently according to their priority levels. The mathematical properties are discussed. The proposed fairness score function \(F^\ast(x_1, x_2, \dots, x_n; w_1, w_2, \dots, w_n)\) keeps all the nice properties of \(F(x_1, x_2, \dots, x_n)\) and provides better performance when the network users have different priority levels.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 91B32
zbMATH DE Number: 6191220
Wikidata QID: Q59015862
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/956039
OpenAlex ID: W2036360126
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description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6191220