A New Measurement for Network Sharing Fairness

A quantitative measure for the fairness of network resource distribution was proposed in Jain, Chiu and Hawe [1]. This fairness function is widely adopted in network design and management. This paper proposes a new distribution fairness score function. Compared the proposed fairness function to the one by Jain, Chiu and Hawe, the proposed fairness function keeps all the nice properties that Jain, Chiu and Hawe′s fairness function possesses. In addition, the proposed fairness score function has better performance in dealing with completely unfair cases.