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[Jon Crowcroft]

the isarithmic flow control stuff was very nice - i remmeber reading it, but have never
recently mamnaged to find the actual reference - do you have the proper citation for
davies' idea? - we should make sure we know it!

In missive <4570BAE6.7000303 at isi.edu>, Joe Touch typed:

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 >>Christian Kreibich wrote:
 >>> Hi Detlef,
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 >>> On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 17:49 +0100, Detlef Bosau wrote:
 >>>> just a very spontaneous, perhaps stupid, question: What is the=20
 >>>> difference between "packet symmetry" and the well known principle of=20
 >>>> packet conservation here? Aren=B4t these ideas at least quite similar?=
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 >>>=20
 >>> the packet conservation principle states that in a steady-state TCP
 >>> flow, a new packet is not to enter the network before another one has
 >>> left
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 >>That "packet conservation principle" already has a (perhaps not as
 >>well-known, but certainly worth knowing) name: 'isarithmic', and was
 >>proposed by Davies in 1972.
 >>
 >>"Packet symmetry" appears to be per-NIC isarithmic.
 >>
 >>The "packet conservation principle" is single-protocol isarithmic.
 >>
 >>Joe
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 >>Joe Touch
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 cheers

   jon