More just measure of fairness for sharing network resources

Abstract

A more just measure of resource distribution in computer networks is proposed. Classic functions evaluate fairness only “on average”. The proposed new fairness score function ensures that no node is left without resources while on average everything looks good. It is compared with well-known and widely adopted function proposed by Jain, Chiu and Hawe and another one recently proposed fairness function by Chen and Zhang. The function proposed in this paper meets most of the properties both earlier proposed functions and at the same time is more restricted and has additional nonzero assignment property.