2006 Reports

Throughput and Fairness in Random Access Networks

Chang, Hoon; Misra, Vishal; Rubenstein, Daniel Stuart

This paper present an throughput analysis of log-utility and max-min fairness. Assuming all nodes interfere with each other, completely or partially, log-utility fairness significantly enhances the total throughput compared to max-min fairness since the nodes should have the same throughput in max-min fairness. The improvement is enlarged especially when the effect of cumulated interference from multiple senders cannot be ignored.