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A new approach to ensure fairness over the Internet
Author(s) -
Salim Zabir Salahuddin Muhammad,
Ashir Ahmed,
Kitagata Gen,
Shiratori Norio
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
international journal of network management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.373
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1099-1190
pISSN - 1055-7148
DOI - 10.1002/nem.520
Subject(s) - computer science , computer network , network congestion , quality of service , the internet , scheme (mathematics) , service (business) , explicit congestion notification , fairness measure , computer security , telecommunications , world wide web , slow start , business , throughput , mathematical analysis , mathematics , marketing , network packet , wireless
Congestion signaling is an essential issue for ensuring a high network performance. Explicit congestion notification (ECN) has been proved to provide a faster indication of congestion and thus improve the QoS of a TCP/IP network. In this paper, we present a new scheme for ECN named fair in‐time marking (FIM), which employs a mechanism that as well as providing an indication of incipient congestion, assures a fair service to all the connections. To facilitate such services using FIM, we propose inclusion of some simple yet effective functionalities in the routers. This is important as the client base of the Internet is increasing rapidly and the demand for a reasonably fair service is getting stronger. Experiments show that FIM offers the best fairness, sometimes better by around 20% or more without affecting efficiency, compared with other proposed schemes for ECN. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.