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3. Modeling: New Theory for Networking
Pages 7-8

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... While this work has yielded many insights about network behavior, understanding other aspects of the network has proven a difficult challenge. Workshop participants encouraged the networking research community to develop new approaches and abstractions that would help mode} an increasingly wide range of network traffic phenomena.
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... However, the implications of such factors as increased code complexity and the cost of reconfiguring default settings remain elusive. At the heart of this endeavor is the seemingly simple but deceptively elusive challenge of defining the problems and an appropriate set of starting assumptions.
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