TCPSat'ers- the following description of spontaneous adaptive control is
nothing new, but I thought it might be of interest. It reminds me of the
old mainframe philosophy of "don't spoil the users!"
Cheers,
Eric
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>RESEARCHERS...
>Researchers at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center conducted tests that
>showed the average packet of digital data took 189 milliseconds to travel
>from Stanford University to Cranfield University in Great Britain and then
>back to Stanford. They then developed a statistical model of Internet
>traffic showing that when users are encouraged by fast response times, they
>ramp up their Internet activities, thus creating the "storms," or bursts of
>congestion, that continually plague the Net. When the response time slows
>to a crawl, users back off, and eventually things get back to normal. To
>avoid the feast-or-famine scenario, the researchers advocate charging all
>users according to the amount of bandwidth they use. (Chronicle of Higher
>Education 1 Aug 97)
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