[e2e] [SPAM] - Re: number of flows per unit time in routers - Email has different SMTP TO: and MIME TO: fields in the email addresses

[Ping Pan]

Appeared in Infocom a couple of years ago, and ToN a couple of months ago:

"Provisioning IP backbone networks to support latency sensitive traffic" 
by C. Fraleigh, F. Tobagi and C. Diot.

Based on a bunch of traffic traces from Sprint backbone at the time.

(Of course, if you really want to hear about overprovisioning, google 
Andrew Odlyzko's old papers. ;-))

- Ping

Alper Kamil Demir wrote:
> Ping,
>  >It sounds like I am trying to bring back the "bad" memory of
>  >RSVP/IntServ/QoS from the 90's, well... they are not needed in the
>  >over-provisioned core. ;-) A paper from Sprint research a while back
>  >had proved that with minor overprovisioning per link, there would be no
>  >need for QoS in the core. The newly built Comcast IP backbone is all
>  >over provisioned... What traffic engineering? ;-)
> I appreciate if you could point out the reference of Sprint paper. I 
> wonder what had been proved. Overprovisioning is an easy way to have the 
> Internet work with some application domain; is not a way to provide QoS; 
> is a type of QoS. 
>  
> Alper K. Demir
> 
>