Canonical references
Introduced in
- R. Cruz. Service burstiness and dynamic burstiness measures: a framework. Journal of High Speed Networks, 1(2): 105-127. 1992
- R. Cruz. Quality of service guarantees in virtual circuit switched networks. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 13(6): 1048-1056. 1995.
Extended to hierarchical scheduling in
- I Stoica, H. Zhang, and T. S. Eugene Ng. A hierarchical fair service curve algorithm for link-sharing, real-time priority services. Proceedings of SIGCOMM’97.