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The terms queue length, queue depth, and queue size are used interchangeably in the literature. In this paper, we will also use the term window size, which is common in the networking literature.
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Shares are alternatively referred to as weights in the literature. Although we use the term VM to be concrete, the same proportional-share framework can accommodate other abstractions of resource consumers, such as applications, processes, users, or groups.
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