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Subject: Re: Doubt about Grading Guideline 
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 16:22:47 -0700
From: william@bourbon.usc.edu

Someone wrote:

  > I was talking about
  > (A) Beacon-only networks : +52 points (Note: *CacheProb is useless for 
  > beacon-only networks*)
  > --(1) Network with 1 beacon node : +28 points

On the node that issued the request, you must search its
datastore.

  > One more thing I want to ask, why have you mentioned *CacheProb is 
  > useless for beacon-only networks, *because I can not find any thing 
  > which tells CacheProb is not for beacons.
  > Is it right? or IU have missed something...?

Becuase it's fully connected.  So, when you reply, the message
goes directly to the requester.  (I guess if you have some
really strange timing in your routing implementation, may be
this may not happen.  But for the (A) cases, we set CacheProb
to 0, then it wouldn't matter.)
--
Bill Cheng // bill.cheng@usc.edu <URL:http://merlot.usc.edu/william/usc/>





  > william@bourbon.usc.edu wrote:
  > > Someone wrote:
  > >
  > >   > As per grading guidelines the node should get search response when there 
  > >   > is only one node is up which is the search requester
  > >   > that means the requester should also search for the required search 
  > >   > query in it's lists and reply back to the search request
  > >   > is it right?
  > >   > or I am missing something... ?
  > >
  > > I don't know what you are asking.  Could you tell me which
  > > test (?.?.?) in the grading guidelines you are asking about?
  > > Please be as specific as possible and copy and paste what's
  > > in the grading guideslines should also help.
  > > --
  > > Bill Cheng // bill.cheng@usc.edu <URL:http://merlot.usc.edu/william/usc/>