Fair Bandwidth Allocation for Responsive and Unresponsive Flows Using a Capture-Recapture Model

Absfrac-In this paper, we propose a novel technique called CARE (CApture-REcapture fair sharing) to provide fair bandwidth sharing. CARE estimates two network resource parameters: the number of Bows in the buffer and the data source rate of a Bow by using a capiure-recapiure model. The capture-recapture model depends on simply the random captnringlrecapturing of the incoming packets, and as a result, it provides a good approrimation tool with low timelspace complexity. Our experiments and analysis will demonstrate that CARE provides highly accnrate fair bandwidth share under dinerent network con6gnrationa and outperforms the existing mechanisms.