caa a22 4500 47578989X CHVBK 20180406123708.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20001101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1019138827659 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1019138827659 Bandwidth sharing and admission control for elastic traffic [Elektronische Daten] [L. Massoulié, J.W. Roberts] We consider the performance of a network like the Internet handling so‐called elastic traffic where the rate of flows adjusts to fill available bandwidth. Realized throughput depends both on the way bandwidth is shared and on the random nature of traffic. We assume traffic consists of point to point transfers of individual documents of finite size arriving according to a Poisson process. Notable results are that weighted sharing has limited impact on perceived quality of service and that discrimination in favour of short documents leads to considerably better performance than fair sharing. In a linear network, max-min fairness is preferable to proportional fairness under random traffic while the converse is true under the assumption of a static configuration of persistent flows. Admission control is advocated as a necessary means to maintain goodput in case of traffic overload. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000 Massoulié L. Microsoft Research, St. George House, 1 Guildhall St., CB2 3NH, Cambridge, UK aut Roberts J.W. France Télécom - CNET, 38 rue du Général Leclerc, 92794 Issy‐Moulineaux Cédex 9, France aut Telecommunication Systems Kluwer Academic Publishers 15/1-2(2000-11-01), 185-201 1018-4864 15:1-2<185 2000 15 11235 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1019138827659 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1019138827659 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Massoulié L. Microsoft Research, St. George House, 1 Guildhall St., CB2 3NH, Cambridge, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Roberts J.W. France Télécom - CNET, 38 rue du Général Leclerc, 92794 Issy‐Moulineaux Cédex 9, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Telecommunication Systems Kluwer Academic Publishers 15/1-2(2000-11-01), 185-201 1018-4864 15:1-2<185 2000 15 11235 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer