Bruce Lowekamp wrote:
> The principle I was trying to apply a few messages ago was that if
> loss in the overlay link layer is caused by congestion, and end-to-end
> protocols react to loss by backing off, we have the same property as
> TCP.  Your suggestion that if 802.11 needing reliability implies that
> an overlay link protocol only makes sense if you believe that the
> overlay link protocol experiences losses that are not due to
> congestion.  I don't believe that is likely to be true, so 802.11 is a
> bad example.

Uh?? In a ring based DHT with 1000 nodes, failure detection time of 1
minute, if peers fail on average every 60 minutes every query has a 1 -
(1 - 1 / 60) ^ (log2(1000) / 2) =~ 8% probability to find a failed hop
on its way. YMMV, but that's hardly irrelevant, especially if compared
to the inherent packet loss rate of 802.11 (which, IIRC, should be less
than 10%).

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Ciao,
Enrico

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