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What is Max-Min Fairness

Chapter 9
Encyclopedia of Internet Technologies and Applications
The principle of max-min fairness allocates network resources in such a way that the bit rate of a flow cannot be increased without decreasing the bit rate of a flow having a smaller bit rate.
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Analysis of TCP-Friendly Protocols for Media Streaming
Gábor Hosszú (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary) and David Tegze (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 7
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-993-9.ch009
Abstract
This chapter presents various congestion control schemes for transport protocols together with a number of metrics for the evaluation of these protocols with special emphasis on fairness-related measures. The paper analyzes some properties of the TFRC algorithm, which provides applications with congestion control mechanisms that can be applied for streaming media. Streaming media is a delivery method of media content, which is simultaneously received by, and displayed to, the end-user while it is being delivered by the provider.
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