Restart Strategies and Internet Congestion
<|reference_start|>Restart Strategies and Internet Congestion: We recently presented a methodology for quantitatively reducing the risk and cost of executing electronic transactions in a bursty network environment such as the Internet. In the language of portfolio theory, time to complete a transaction and its variance replace the expected return and risk associated with a security, whereas restart times replace combinations of securities. While such a strategy works well with single users, the question remains as to its usefulness when used by many. By using mean field arguments and agent-based simulations, we determine that a restart strategy remains advantageous even if everybody uses it.<|reference_end|>
@article{maurer1999restart,
    title={Restart Strategies and Internet Congestion},
    author={Sebastian M. Maurer and Bernardo A. Huberman},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:chao-dyn/9905036},
    year={1999},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={chao-dyn/9905036},
    primaryClass={chao-dyn adap-org cs.NI nlin.AO nlin.CD}
}