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Re: Selfish routing


From: Leo Bicknell <bicknell () ufp org>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 20:35:48 -0400

In a message written on Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 10:52:16PM -0400, Sean Donelan wrote:
  One antidote to selfish routing, the two researchers found, is more
  capacity. Optimum overall system speeds can be restored despite selfish
  routing by either doubling the number of lanes on a highway or doubling
  the bandwidth of a communications link. Particularly in the case of
  roads, however, that is rarely practical or even desirable.

Primary path gets full.

Provider routes to secondary path, which is better than primary path
when full.

Users and provider discover life would be better when primary path had
more bandwidth.

News at 11.

I mean, really, the fact that a secondary path is worse than a primary
path with no capacity is a no brainer, couldn't these people be doing
something more useful?

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