Jain’s Fairness Index

• A definition for fairness:

  • 0 <= f() <= 1, given flow throughputs x
  • locally equal partitioning of bandwidth achieves index of 1. If only k of n flows receive equal bw (and others get none), index is k/n
  • what about different-length flows? (p.401)

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