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New Computer Generated Code Outdoes Best Human Effort

Researchers at the MIT have published a paper and open source code for a new network congestion protocol that seemingly does the impossible, allows better traffic sharing on our existing networks, without any extra overheads.

What is unusual is that code was generated by a computer.

http://web.mit.edu/remy/

TCP ex Machina: Computer-Generated Congestion Control

Up to this point, human designers have created TCP’s congestion-control algorithms by hand. There have been many such schemes over the last 25 years: TCP Tahoe, Reno, NewReno, Vegas, FAST, BIC, Cubic (Linux’s current default), Compound (Windows’s current default), etc. As the Internet has matured and evolved, crossing oceans and including wireless networks and ultrafast datacenters, so too have protocol designers added bells and whistles to our congestion-control algorithms.

So what? You may be thinking, how is this interesting for android? If you’re running a custom-built rom, then this is pretty easy to implement right away, and will make your devices’ network connection quicker, that’s a pretty decent start.

https://github.com/keithw/remy

Taking it further what could happen of the same principles are applied to the android source? Better more efficient code? The beginning of something horrific from a sci-fi writers imagination where computers take over?

Who knows, but for now I’ll stick with a more efficient network, Remy is going on my custom cyanogenmod build later today.

About Ian Fardoe

Ian is an android hacker, bass player and human powered vehicle racer, although he's not managed all at the same time yet (the bass doesn't fit )!