Minmax bandwidth allocation for time-slotted systems with Internet traffic

The MinMax scheduling algorithm has been proved to be fair and efficient for dynamic bandwidth allocation in wireless scenarios. In this paper, MinMax is extended to the case of Internet traffic, which is bursty at all timescales. To do so, MinMax is equipped with a minimum square error estimate in order to improve bandwidth allocation accuracy. The proposed MinMax extension is named MinMaxPred, which has been developed following a novel methodology that considers the traffic prediction and bandwidth scheduling problem jointly while, traditionally, they were considered as isolated problems.