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Figure 8.56
Indirect network compared with two direct
networks.
So for
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and
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and
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so that
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(32, 2) Tc = 16 + 12.5 = 28.5
and
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(10, 3) Tc = 7.5 + 18.8 = 26.3.
The waiting time is
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where r = (mkd)l/w. The results are plotted in Figure 8.56.
Suppose now we include the effect of locality. Suppose we can achieve L = 0.25. This means that:
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