The Internet's ultimate utility depends on our ability and willingness to make the network at least as pervasive, convenient, and invisible as electricity is today.
Leonard Kleinrock
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Growth of distributed systems has attained unstoppable momentum. If we better understood how to think about, analyze, and design distributed systems, we could direct their implementation with more confidence.
Excerpts from: An Information Systems Manifesto
James Martin talks with Leonard Kleinrock about the state of the art in data processing—how corporate and MIS managers should manage the new technology, and how computer science education should relate to it.
A study of line overhead in the Arpanet
The form, extent, and effect of the communication line overhead in the ARPANET are considered. The source of this overhead is separated into various levels of protocol hierarchy and the characteristics of each level are summarized. Then the line efficiency for various models of system use is studied. Some measurements of line efficiency for the ARPANET are presented and by extrapolation these measurements are used to anticipate overhead in a heavily loaded network. Similar results are derived for a recently proposed network protocol and compared with those for the current system.
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