Researchers developing dynamic mechanisms to maintain the web's enormous performance capability
Friday, July 10, 2015 - 09:10
in Mathematics & Economics
Every internet user knows the situation. Just when you find your favourite TV show on YouTube and press play, the video quivers and hangs because the network is overloaded. Or even worse, the deciding goal in the final game of the World Football Cup reaches your TV streamer later than your neighbours' due to so-called latencies, that is, delays in transmitting the game. More and more data, users, apps, end devices, new forms of communication like hashtags and flashmobs and augmented reality games like Ingress are pushing the internet to the borders of its capacity and sometimes bringing it to a standstill.