Time-value curves to provide dynamic QoS for time sensitive file transfers

A system for allocating at least one network resource among a plurality of tasks, each task having a respective priority that varies continuously as a function of time, the system comprising:

• at least one processor;
• and
• at least one memory configured to store instructions for execution by the at least one processor, the instructions comprising instructions that, when executed:
• allocate, over each of a plurality of time intervals, the at least one network resource based on relative values of the respective priorities over each of the plurality of time intervals, at least one task of the plurality of tasks having a respective priority that increases from a non-zero lowest value at a beginning of a finite time interval for which the at least one task is executing to a highest value before the end of the finite time interval and remains at the highest value until the end of the finite time interval.