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tptacek on March 15, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Exponential Backoff and Jitter

Great post. There's a classic LBL paper about self-synchronization in (I think) time protocols that demonstrates the same conclusion in a more dramatic way.

mkempe on March 15, 2015 [–]

Maybe this one? "The Synchronization of Periodic Routing Messages" (1994) [1]

[1] http://ee.lbl.gov/papers/sync_94.pdf

tptacek on March 15, 2015 | [–]

Yep! Sally Floyd f.t.w!

Thanks for finding that.

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