Return-Path: william@bourbon.usc.edu Delivery-Date: Sat Nov 22 20:54:11 2008 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on merlot.usc.edu X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 Received: from bourbon.usc.edu (bourbon.usc.edu [128.125.9.75]) by merlot.usc.edu (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id mAN4sBR7008516 for ; Sat, 22 Nov 2008 20:54:11 -0800 Received: from bourbon.usc.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by bourbon.usc.edu (8.14.2/8.14.1) with ESMTP id mAN4qAnd016850 for ; Sat, 22 Nov 2008 20:52:11 -0800 Message-Id: <200811230452.mAN4qAnd016850@bourbon.usc.edu> To: cs551@merlot.usc.edu Subject: Re: Project 2 Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 20:52:10 -0800 From: Bill Cheng Someone wrote: > In the grding guidelines why do you mention that cache probaility is > useless for beacon-only networks? Because all nodes are connected to each other directly, So, if a node sees an indirect message, it's *most likely* a duplicate message will get dropped. As a result, the GET response will only travel one hop. -- Bill Cheng // bill.cheng@usc.edu