Re: TCP ex Machina

it is a tiny bit cleverer than that - the work is the moral equivalent of
the Axelrod experiment in emergent cooperation, but neater because it is
quantitative rather than just qualitative selection of strategies - what is
important (imho) is that they use many many simulation runs to evaluate a
"fitness" of a given protocol...this is heavy lifting, but pays off - so it
will be nice to see empirical follow up work but this isn't some naive
"overfitting" undergrad work - it is rather different and requires a
considered response


On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 9:28 PM, Detlef Bosau <[email protected]> wrote:

> To my understanding, you write down the whole communication (who wants to
> sent what to whom) and afterwards you calculate an optimized schedule.
>
> Reminds me of undergraduate homework in operating systems, gantt diagrams
> and that funny stuff.
>
> You cannot predict your link's properties (e.g. in the case of wireless
> links), you cannot predict your user's behaviour, so you conjecture a lot
> from presumptions which hardly ever will hold.
>
> Frankly spoken: This route leads to nowhere.
>
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