Research on performance evaluation for packet scheduling algorithms

Performance evaluation is one of the most important issues for packet scheduling algorithms. The algorithms will be varied with the performance criteria. Because the packet scheduling algorithm has multiple performance objectives, how to reach multiple objectives simultaneously is a difficult problem. This paper provides a set of integrated performance evaluation criteria from the network traffic control model, and the criteria integrate several objects, such as the network performance, user´s QoS requirement and system fairness. Then it is discussed and analyzed in detail. Moreover, the integrated performance evaluating criteria can be applied to performance evaluation and improvement in network traffic control strategy and algorithms