Fairness index based on variational distance

GLOBECOM - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Deng, Jing ^a   Han, Yunghsiang S ^b,c   Liang, Ben ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHI NAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; FAIRNESS INDEX; FAIRNESS PROPERTIES; SYSTEM MEASUREMENT; TECHNICAL LITERATURE; VARIATIONAL DISTANCE;

EID: 77951594835     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2009.5426128     Document Type: Conference Paper

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