some newbie DC-net questions
Jim Miller
jim at bilbo.suite.com
Sat Nov 6 13:32:45 PST 1993
I'm a newcommer to DC-nets, so the following questions may sound funny to
somebody that actually knows DC-nets...
1) What is happening on a DC-net when nobody is sending a message? Is it
simply issuing a stream of zeros? Are "coins" being continuously flipped, even
when no messages are being sent?
2) What does it look like (from a traffic flow perspective) when the DC-net
transitions from no messages being sent to a message being sent? The stream of
zeros becomes and bunch of ones-and-zeros?
3) What happens when two members of a "table" attempt to transmit at the same
time? How is this case handled?
4) Are there any DC-net papers available for downloading via FTP?
Thanks,
Jim_Miller at suite.com
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