Re: TCP ex Machina
Detlef Bosau <[email protected]>
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Just for the record, you think of Robert Axelrod and his game theoretic experiments? Am 21.07.2013 23:14, schrieb Jon Crowcroft: > 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. >> >> >> -- >> ------------------------------**------------------------------**------ >> Detlef Bosau >> Galileistraße 30 >> 70565 Stuttgart Tel.: +49 711 5208031 >> mobile: +49 172 6819937 >> skype: detlef.bosau >> ICQ: 566129673 >> [email protected] http://www.detlef-bosau.de >> >> -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Detlef Bosau Galileistraße 30 70565 Stuttgart Tel.: +49 711 5208031 mobile: +49 172 6819937 skype: detlef.bosau ICQ: 566129673 [email protected] http://www.detlef-bosau.de