Selfish routing

Sat Apr 26 00:35:48 UTC 2003

In a message written on Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 10:52:16PM -0400, Sean Donelan wrote:
>   One antidote to selfish routing, the two researchers found, is more
>   capacity. Optimum overall system speeds can be restored despite selfish
>   routing by either doubling the number of lanes on a highway or doubling
>   the bandwidth of a communications link. Particularly in the case of
>   roads, however, that is rarely practical or even desirable.

Primary path gets full.

Provider routes to secondary path, which is better than primary path
when full.

Users and provider discover life would be better when primary path had
more bandwidth.

News at 11.

I mean, really, the fact that a secondary path is worse than a primary
path with no capacity is a no brainer, couldn't these people be doing
something more useful?

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