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'Selfish' routers slow the Internet
by w1ld at 11:47 am EST, Feb 16, 2003

That's the conclusion two Cornell University computer scientists came to after finding that computer networks tend to be "selfish" when each tries to route traffic by the fastest pathway, causing that path to become congested and slow.

If the routers that direct the packets of data could be programmed with some altruism, the information might be able to reach its destination a little faster while allowing other packets to also move more quickly.
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Damn Selfish Routers!


 
 
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