[Starlink] when hackers stay up late and queueing theory 101

[Dave Taht <davet@teklibre.net>]

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One of my most inspirational books over the years the bufferbloat effort has run was “where wizards stay up late”

https://www.amazon.com/Where-Wizards-Stay-Up-Late/dp/0684832674

(several people featured in that book are on this mailing list)

My hero, in the book, was len kleinrock. His gang of grad students at UCLA took great delight in finding new ways to break and improve on the early arpanet.

Their bottom up efforts drove the (otherwise great) engineers driving the code and top down design at BBN absolutely insane, but we got a lot out of the end result.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Kleinrock

Len Kleinrock’s work on queue theory is remarkably accessible to even a college sophomore in business... but seems to be sadly mostly out of print at the moment.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Queueing+Systems+Volume+1%3A+Theory+by+Leonard&i=stripbooks&ref=nb_sb_noss

THANKFULLY archive.org has been making his books available here for quite some time: 

https://archive.org/details/queueingsystems01klei

https://archive.org/details/queueingsystems02klei/

Queue theory notation is quite weird and hard to grok. However the more CS oriented Volume 2 is the book I relied upon heavily while developing enhancements to fq_codel and its successors.

I can send along my tattered dog-eared copy to whoever might be willing to read it. If you agree to send it back!







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