Scheduling Method Tradeoffs

• Complexity

• Fairness

  • Fairness is a state of mind; For this talk, “fairness” means bandwidth sharing fairness

• Immunity from other flows

  • Some mechanism to prevent stomping on adjacent flows

• Guarantees

  • A SLA doesn’t mean much if you can’t guarantee it
    • (Does it?)

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