Abstract
While surfing on the Internet, you may have observed the following. If a webpage takes a long time to download and you press the reload button then often the page promptly appears on your screen. Hence, the download was not hindered by congestion — then you’d better try again later — but by some other cause.
If you do not know if some cause (like congestion) may hinder your download then what is a good strategy? When should you cancel the download and when should you press the reload button? Should you press it immediately or should you wait for a while? And how long should you wait before cancelling the download? We analyze these issues in this article, which is a non-technical impression of the paper “Efficiency of Repeated Network Interactions��? [4] by Judith Timmer (UT) and Michel Mandjes (UvA).
| Original language | Undefined |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 22-24 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | AENORM |
| Volume | 64 |
| Publication status | Published - 2009 |
Keywords
- EWI-15803
- Network efficiency
- Non-cooperative game
- Impatience
- METIS-263952
- IR-68740
- Congestion
- Restart strategy