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detection latency, the route computation latency increases with the
load and becomes a function of the node’s speed in the high load
case. Also, the authors identify another problem, called MAC packet
arrival, that is related to routing protocols. In fact, when a link failure
is detected, the link failure is sent to the routing agent of the packet
that triggered the detection. If other sources are using the same link
in the path to their destinations, the node that detects the link fail-
ure has to wait till it receives a packet from these sources before they
are informed of the failure. is also contributes to the delay after a
source realizes that a path is broken.
Dyer and Boppana [4] report simulation results on the ...