On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Rogerio Brito wrote:
> I was looking for more detains about the mathematical side of
> the things (e.g., what is the measure of "hurt", in your words
> or the cost to which Dan refers?) and like why the optimal
> retry schedule is essentially independent of the actual
> distribution of message delay times. And why did Dan choose a
> quadratic retry schedule and not, say, a cubic one? For some
> convenience?
The abstract of the paper:
Chao-Ju Hou and Kang G. Shin, "Determination of an optimal retry time in
multiple-module computing systems," IEEE Trans. on Computers, Vol. 45, No.
3, pages 374--379, March, 1996
looks relevant, as do the titles of the papers listed at
http://ftp.ust.hk/dblp/db/indices/a-tree/s/Shin:Kang_G=.html
Hope this helps.
RjL
