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Title : Flow Rate Fairness: Dismantling a Religion
Author(s) : B. Briscoe
Filename : draft-briscoe-tsvarea-fair-00.txt,.pdf
Pages : 32
Date : 2006-10-18
We were moved to write this memo because the applied research and
standards communities in networking are using completely unrealistic
and impractical fairness criteria. The issue is not whether they
should use this or that allocation scheme; they don't even allocate
the right thing and they don't allocate it between the right
entities. We explain as bluntly as we can that sharing out flow
rates (as TCP and many other popular fairness mechanisms do) has no
intellectual heritage from any concept of fairness in philosophy or
social science, or indeed real life. Comparing and controlling flow
rates alone will never achieve fairness and should never again be
claimed as a fairness mechanism for production networks. Instead, a
realistic fairness mechanism must share out the `cost' of each users
actions on others.
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