Fair queueing is a very old (40 years?) CS / networking paradigm. It's what makes your internet connection feel snappy. It is distinct from order and priority,

Fair queueing is a very old (40 years?) CS / networking paradigm. It's what makes your internet connection feel snappy. It is distinct from order and priority, and is not subjective; there are many forms of it and each has a specific meaning. There are many other forms of queueing other than fair, so if you're looking for a more specific use case, there may already be an algorithm for it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_queuing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_queuing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weighted_fair_queueing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weighted_fair_queueing https://intronetworks.cs.luc.edu/1/html/queuing.html https://intronetworks.cs.luc.edu/1/html/queuing.html