In this section we illustrate the ramifications of the differences between Equation 12 and Equation 6 with a small example.
Table 2 shows the experimentally derived baseline throughputs of two identical competing nodes as a function of transmission rate. This provides an estimate of baseline throughput for various transmission rates.
Using these values, we compute the throughputs when I contains
four competing nodes, one communicating at 1 Mbps, one at 2 Mbps,
and at 11 Mbps. These are shown in Table 3.
The achieved throughput of the slower nodes is less under time-based fairness than
under throughput-based fairness. Under time-based fairness, the 1 Mbps and 2 Mbps nodes achieve the throughput
they would have achieved of all four nodes were running at their speed.
The 11 Mbps nodes achieve considerably higher throughput under time-based fairness,
and the total throughput improves by 
.