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V. Liberatore
Pervasive Computing
Overprovisioning
Access
networks
nAny flow can saturate the network
nExacerbated by TCP
Attempt to
use all the bandwidth
Core
network
nGood news
Statistical
multiplexing
Relatively
low rate flows
nBad news
Not ready
yet for VoIP [MTK02]
Only 50Mbps
over-provisioning on half of the paths [ASS03]