Title :
Maxmin fair scheduling in wireless networks
Author :
Tassiulas, Leandros ; Sarkar, Saswati
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Maryland Univ., College Park, MD, USA
Abstract :
We consider scheduling policies for maxmin fair allocation of bandwidth in wireless ad hoc networks. We formalize the maxmin fair objective under wireless scheduling constraints. We propose a fair scheduling which assigns dynamic weights to the flows such that the weights depend on the congestion in the neighborhood and schedule the flows which constitute a maximum weighted matching. It is possible to prove analytically that this policy attains both short term and long term fairness. We consider more generalized fairness notions, and suggest mechanisms to attain these objectives.
Keywords :
ad hoc networks; bandwidth allocation; minimax techniques; mobile computing; mobile radio; resource allocation; scheduling; telecommunication congestion control; ad hoc networks; bandwidth allocation; congestion; maxmin fair scheduling; mobile computing devices; resource allocation; wireless networks; Bandwidth; Dynamic scheduling; Educational institutions; Intelligent networks; Intserv networks; Military computing; Processor scheduling; Quality of service; Resource management; Wireless networks;
Conference_Titel :
INFOCOM 2002. Twenty-First Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. Proceedings. IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7476-2
DOI :
10.1109/INFCOM.2002.1019322