A property of an access protocol for a system resource whereby the resource is made equitably or impartially available to all eligible users. (RFC 3753)
A property of an access protocol for a system resource whereby the resource is made equitably or impartially available to all eligible users. (RFC 3753)
Tutorial: Fairness can be used to defend against some types of denial-of-service attacks on a system connected to a network. However, this technique assumes that the system can properly receive and process inputs from the network. Therefore, the technique can mitigate flooding but is ineffective against jamming.