I understand and believe in the value of erasure coding, though I want to see the latency effects here. But that model was very detailed view into an overly simple (to the point of operationally unrealistic) model. Bad example, for a research paper.
George William Herbert Sent from my iPhone On Oct 23, 2012, at 8:57 PM, "Michael Painter" <tvhaw...@shaka.com> wrote: > George Herbert wrote: >> Modeled with just simple FTP sessions? >> >> Ugh: they admitted to having MIT backbone packet traces to analyze, and then >> used that simple of a simulator... > > > The practical benefits of the technology, known as coded TCP, were seen on a > recent test run on a New York-to-Boston Acela train, notorious for poor > connectivity. By increasing their available bandwidth-the amount of data that > can be relayed in a given period of time-Medard and students were able to > watch blip-free YouTube videos while some other passengers struggled to get > online. "They were asking us 'How did you do that?' and we said 'We're > engineers!' " she jokes. > > More here: > http://www.technologyreview.com/news/429722/a-bandwidth-breakthrough/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_source=newsletter-daily-all&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20121023 > >
