[e2e] Question the other way round:

Joe Touch touch at isi.edu
Wed Nov 20 16:12:02 PST 2013



On 11/20/2013 2:04 PM, Detlef Bosau wrote:
> Am 19.11.2013 19:15, schrieb Joe Touch:
...
>> I agree, but it jumps in assuming packets. Given packets, it's easy to
>> assume that oversubscription is the natural consequence of avoiding
>> congestion.
>>
>
> What is "oversubscription" all about in a
> - connectionless
> - reservationless
> network?

Oversubscription is when you have more requests than you can handle. A 
packet in a connectionless, reservationless system is its own 
subscription request.

Joe


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