Fairness in Resource Allocation

The effective utilization of resource allocation scheme can be evaluated with two primary metrics,
1. Throughput
2. Delay
* Throughput has to be as large as possible, delay for a flow should normally be minimal
* When the number of packets admitted into the network increases, the throughput tends to improve, but when the number of packets increases, the capacity of links is saturated, and thus the delay also increases.
* A resource allocation scheme must also be fair i.e. each traffic flow through the

network receives an equal share of bandwidth.

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