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Subject: Re: final proj part#1...
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:27:00 -0700
From: Bill Cheng <william@bourbon.usc.edu>

Someone wrote:

  > doubts in final project part#1:
  > 1] Case where UOID table has been deleted after sometime interval
  > and after which a response for a message sent earlier has
  > arrived. Now it has no information to route the response to the
  > correct route. What step to be taken? should it be dropped or is
  > there any other way to handle this?

You should drop the message.

  > 2] In case of beacon nodes- suppose A and B are two beacon nodes
  > and A is down for some reason. Now should B keep sending
  > "keepalive" messages or should it close the socket and connect
  > only after it gets a "hello" message after A is up?

If A goes down, B should disconnect.

  > 3] In a case where only 1 beacon node is up and a regular node
  > tries to come up but inifile of the regular node has
  > minneighbor=2. Now what should the regular node do? Will it keep
  > shutting down and retry again?

During JOIN, if a regular node cannot get enough join responses,
it should give up, print a message to the user, and terminate
itself.
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Bill Cheng // bill.cheng@usc.edu <URL:http://merlot.usc.edu/william/usc/>