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Foil 21 Latency and Bandwidth of a Network

From New CPS615 Foils-- B 28 August 95 CPS615 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science -- Fall Semester 95. by Geoffrey C. Fox
Transmission Time for message of n bytes:
T0 + T1 n where
T0 is latency containing a term proportional to number of hops. It also has a term representing interrupt processing time at beginning at and for communication network and processor to synchronize
T0 = TS + Td . Number of hops
T1 is the inverse bandwidth -- it can be made small if pipe is large size.
In practice TS and T1 are most important and Td is unimportant

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