On the fairness of dynamic bandwidth allocation schemes in Ethernet passive optical networks

Computer Communications

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2123-2135

  Bai, Xiaofeng ^a   Shami, Abdallah ^a   Assi, Chadi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b Concordia University ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Dynamic bandwidth allocation; Ethernet passive optical network; Network performance; Statistical bandwidth multiplexing; Weighted max min fairness

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; MULTIPLEXING; PASSIVE NETWORKS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

DYNAMIC BANDWIDTH ALLOCATION; ETHERNET PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK; NETWORK PERFORMANCE; STATISTICAL BANDWIDTH MULTIPLEXING; WEIGHTED MAX-MIN FAIRNESS;

BROADBAND NETWORKS;

EID: 33745712116     PISSN: 01403664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comcom.2006.01.005     Document Type: Article

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