[e2e] TCP ex Machina

[Detlef Bosau]

Just for the record, you think of Robert Axelrod and his game theoretic 
experiments?

Am 21.07.2013 23:14, schrieb Jon Crowcroft:
> it is a tiny bit cleverer than that - the work is the moral equivalent of
> the Axelrod experiment in emergent cooperation, but neater because it is
> quantitative rather than just qualitative selection of strategies - what is
> important (imho) is that they use many many simulation runs to evaluate a
> "fitness" of a given protocol...this is heavy lifting, but pays off - so it
> will be nice to see empirical follow up work but this isn't some naive
> "overfitting" undergrad work - it is rather different and requires a
> considered response
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 9:28 PM, Detlef Bosau <detlef.bosau at web.de> wrote:
>
>> To my understanding, you write down the whole communication (who wants to
>> sent what to whom) and afterwards you calculate an optimized schedule.
>>
>> Reminds me of undergraduate homework in operating systems, gantt diagrams
>> and that funny stuff.
>>
>> You cannot predict your link's properties (e.g. in the case of wireless
>> links), you cannot predict your user's behaviour, so you conjecture a lot
>> from presumptions which hardly ever will hold.
>>
>> Frankly spoken: This route leads to nowhere.
>>
>>
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