Performance Modeling for Packet Networks with Satellite Overflow Channels

Yuill, S.; Pickholtz, R.L.

doi:10.1109/tcom.1981.1095060

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“…What came to be a logical metric for such delays was the time taken by a data packet from start to finish; while the point of packet-switching design is that packets take different routes to their destination, aggregate measures of end-to-end travel time could speak to the network's average speed and capacity. (For similar uses, see Coviello [1979], Papantoni-Kazakos [1979], Lavia & Rhynas [1979], Yuill & Pickholtz [1981], Wong et al [1982], Girard & Ouimet [1983], Morling et al [1983] and Tobagi et al [1983].) A third descriptive use of the term referred to the network's capacity to handle some functions at the endpoints in the system.…”

Section: The Debate Over Network Architecturementioning

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Engineering a Principle

Gillespie

2006

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The term 'end-to-end' has become a familiar characterization of the architecture of the Internet, not only in engineering discourse, but in contexts as varied as political manifestos, commercial promotions, and legal arguments. Its ubiquity and opacity cloak the complexity of the technology it describes, and stand in for a richer controversy about the details of network design. This essay considers the appearance, in the 1970s, of the term 'end-to-end' in computer science discourse, and how the term became a point of contention within disputes about how to build a packet-switched network. I argue that the resolution of some of those disputes depended on the transformation of the term from descriptor to 'principle'. This transformation attempted to close specific design debates, and, in the process, made the term dramatically more useful in those discourses beyond engineering that eventually took a keen interest in the design of digital communication networks. The term, drawn from common parlance and given not only meaning but conviction, was shaped and polished so as to be mobile. As such, it actively managed and aligned disparate structural agendas, and has had subtle consequences for how the Internet has been understood, sold, legislated, and even re-designed.

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Section: The Debate Over Network Architecturementioning

confidence: 99%

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Gillespie

2006

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Engineering a Principle: 'End-to-End' in the Design of the Internet

Gillespie

2008

SSRN Journal

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The term 'end-to-end' has become a familiar characterization of the architecture of the Internet, not only in engineering discourse, but in contexts as varied as political manifestos, commercial promotions, and legal arguments. Its ubiquity and opacity cloaks the complexity of the technology it describes, and stands in for a richer controversy about the details of network design.This essay considers the appearance, in the 1970s, of the term 'end-to-end' in computer science discourse, and how the term became a point of contention within disputes about how to build a packet-switched network. I argue that the resolution of some of those disputes depended on the transformation of the term from descriptor to 'principle'. This transformation attempted to close specific design debates, and, in the process, made the term dramatically more useful in those discourses beyond engineering that eventually took a keen interest in the design of digital communication networks.The term, drawn from common parlance and given not only meaning but conviction, was shaped and polished so as to be mobile. As such, it actively managed and aligned disparate structural agendas, and has had subtle consequences for how the Internet has been understood, sold, legislated, and even redesigned.

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Performance Modeling for Packet Networks with Satellite Overflow Channels

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