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[Swapnil V. Patil]

On Sat, 2 Dec 2006, Jon Crowcroft wrote:

> 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!
>

I think the main paper is ...

"The control of congestion in packet switching networks"
by Donald W. Davies
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=811052

Thanks
-swapnil





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