[e2e] end2end-interest Digest, Vol 63, Issue 11

[Detlef Bosau]

S. Keshav wrote:
> If you have a fluid system, where a source send packets as packets of 
> infinitesimal size evenly spaced apart, and if routers do not add 
> burstiness, then there is no need for buffering.

Unfortunately, packet switching networks are anything but a fluid system.

Although there is a huge amount of literature which uses fluid flow 
models for TCP/IP.

> Indeed, in the classical telephone network, where sources are 64kbps 
> constant bit rate sources and switches do not add burstiness, we need 
> only one sample's worth of buffering, independent of the 
> bandwidth-delay product. 

That's exactly the conflict of paradigms I mentioned in my other message 
today ;-)

EE: fluid flow like, with scheduling, if possible "quasi synchronous".
CS: bursts are possible, there is no scheduling, the network may be as 
asynchronous as it could be....


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