Re: two ideas...

> From: Jeffrey Mogul <mogul@pa.dec.com>
> 
>     I grabbed a copy of the Touch and Farber paper cited earlier in
>     this thread, which seemed to deal with  FTP. This described a
>     pre-send selection algorithm of sending everything in the currently
>     selected directory. The Boston University system used a simple
>     1-level probablistic model to pick the best candidates for
>     pre-send, and used fare less extra bandwidth, though with a higher
>     probablity of a cache-miss. There's lots of stuff to tune with
>     speculation.
>     
> The model that Venkata Padmanabhan and I had been working on is
> a little different from the BU and Touch/Farber models (as far as
> I have been able to learn).
> 
> We started from these principles:

I liked the idea of Jeff's summaries, so I put abbreviated versions of
my own on the Related works page of the LowLat pages:

	http://www.isi.edu/lowlat/related-work.html

This is a summary of ALL latency reduction techniques, with pointers,
and some brief summaries. It is a work-in-progress; feedback would be 
appreciated.

Thanks!

Joe