Unfairness of measurement‐based admission controls in a heterogeneous environment

Abstract

SUMMARYAdmission controls are required to determine whether new connections should be admitted to networks. These controls ensure the quality of service (QoS) for data transmission. This paper introduces three measurement-based admission control algorithms called Measured Sum, Hoe!ding Bound, and Adaptive Weight Factor. The unfairness of these algorithms in a heterogeneous environment is investigated. Simulation results indicate that the fairness of the Measured Sum exceeds that of the other methods. Admission of connections with large peak rates or travelling many hops can be di$cult.

Research on Network Resource (Bandwidth) Reservation

“…In Diffserv's paper [8], a hierarchical bandwidth reservation acceptance strategy is proposed to solve the fairness problem. For the study of this problem, Measuredsum [9] also introduced the classical acceptance algorithm and analyzed the idea and the fairness of acceptance reservation in detail.…”