On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Grant Holland <[email protected]> wrote: > Excellent high-level description of IP.
Actually it is specifically Metcalf's Ethernet protocol, and it still remains a brilliant solution to the traffic contention problem. All sorts of "intelligent" attempts at making a complex rule for packet scheduling wouldn't have come close to the simple "wait a random moment and re-try". Re-tries on collisions go down exponentially with this simple constant-time approach. mark sf_x ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
