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.