Fairness measures for best effort traffic in wireless networks

Paper in proceeding, 2004

This paper proposes that fairness in wireless networks should be measured using one of the following new measures: the deterministic unfairness bound called the wireless absolute fairness bound (WAFB) or the statistical unfairness bound called the 99-percentile wireless absolute fairness bound (WAFB(99)). Compared with previous fairness definitions, the new fairness measures are better suited for measuring fairness of scheduling disciplines that exploit multiuser diversity. A new scheduling discipline called opportunistic proportional fair scheduling is defined. Numerical results show that the new scheduling discipline has slightly higher throughput and slightly better fairness than proportional fair scheduling.