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Re: Selfish routing

  • From: Stephen Sprunk
  • Date: Sat Apr 26 20:22:49 2003 
Thus spake "Mike Lloyd" <[email protected]>
> Roughgarden's work generally seems to get reported on
> backwards.  What's a poor journalist to do?

Learn how to present his ideas?

> If I might, his model says the best is between 0% and a max of 25%
> better than the selfish result.  Selfish routing may actually get us the
> best possible Internet, although that is not proven.

Selfish routing is the simplest and cheapest to implement, which are large
factors in evaluating the "best" dumb network.

S

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