Algorithms for Theoretical Investigation of Fairness in Multipath Transport

A Mathematical Model for Efficient and Fair Resource Assignment in Multipath Transport

“…If the developed models provide the ideal fair allocation for any scenario, then the models can be confirmed as the optimum fair solution. As an alternative solution which complements the linear programing approach, algorithms which provide an ideal solution for a network scenario for different fair allocation methods have been proposed in [1]. These algorithms resemble the way how one would solve the problem "manually" when looking at it.…”

“…The most commonly used transport protocol in today's Internet is the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) [1]. It is not only used by "classical" applications which rely on reliable transmissions-such as web, e-mail or file transfer-but also by some soft-real-time applications where delay is less critical, such as video streaming.…”

“…The contribution of this paper is (1) presenting formal definitions of a network and the different transport-layer fairness methods based on selecting resources and participants; (2) based on these definitions, designing a novel mathematical method based on mixed-integer (non)linear programming (MINLP) for the optimum assignment of data flows to physical paths across the network; and (3) evaluating the developed mathematical methods using 30 example scenarios.…”