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Altruistic Routers

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15-02-2003 6:09pm

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yellum

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A little altruism could go a long way in speeding up the Internet. 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.

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