"Size-based Congestion Control Using Network Utility Maximisation" by Cao Wang, Lachlan Andrew et al.
This paper presents a method for allocating transmission rates in a communication network that uses knowledge of the size of the file to be transmitted to seek to obtain the benefits of shortest remaining processing time (SRPT) scheduling. It provides fairness among file transmissions taking into account their sizes and the congestion on the links they use. The proposed approach is based on network utility maximisation (NUM), but with utility functions that vary in time depending on the remaining file size. A parameterized family of utility functions is proposed. For each value of the paramete...
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