@article{Zukerman2005Efficiency,
author = {M. Zukerman and L. Tan and H. Wang and I. Ouveysi},
title = {Efficiency-fairness tradeoff in telecommunications
networks},
journal = {IEEE Communications Letters},
volume = {9},
number = {7},
pages = {643-645},
month = {Jul.},
year = {2005},
abstract = {Introducing the concept of $\alpha$-fairness,
which allows for a bounded fairness compromise, so
that no source is allocated less than a fraction $\alpha$ of its fair share, this
letter studies tradeoffs between
efficiency (utilization, throughput or revenue) and
fairness in a general
telecommunications network
with relation to any fairness criterion. We
formulate a linear program that finds the optimal bandwidth allocation by
maximizing efficiency subject to $\alpha$-fairness
constraints. This leads to what we call an efficiency-fairness
curve, which shows the benefit in
efficiency as a function of the extent to which
fairness is compromised.}
}