Empirical stability limits for a size-based scheduler applied to Network Utility Maximization

Network Utility Maximization (NUM) is an optimization problem that models rate allocation in the Internet. NUM is considered to produce fair bandwidth allocations, an advantage for the implementation of TCP queue management protocols. Prioritization of data packets can benefit from knowing transfer sizes a-priori. A state-of-the-art NUM formulation considers a size-based approach where transmissio...