The Social Life of Routers

Posted by makimaki on Tuesday December 09, 2008 @11:12AM
from the technologyreview.com dept.

http://www.technologyreview.com/web/21782/?a=f

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Re:The Social Life of Routers by Anon84 on Tuesday December 09, 2008 @01:47PM (#391568)

The paper(s) mentioned in the article:

http://complex.ffn.ub.es/~mbogunya/home_files/0709.0303v2%28...

http://complex.ffn.ub.es/~mbogunya/home_files/0809.2995v1%28...

From the authors home page.

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Re:The Social Life of Routers by fhars on Tuesday December 09, 2008 @05:52PM (#391963)

In the original experiment most letters never reached their destination. I am not convinced that this is a desirable property for a routing protocol...

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Re:The Social Life of Routers by kqr2 on Tuesday December 09, 2008 @02:23PM (#391622)

This could be useful as a backup protocol in case the normal route table / rules no longer works.

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Re:The Social Life of Routers by Cunard2 on Tuesday December 09, 2008 @02:23PM (#391624)

Sounds like Google for routers

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