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Today’s Internet provides one simple service: best effort datagram delivery. Such a minimalist service allows routers to be stateless, that is, except for the routing state, which is highly aggregated, routers do not need to maintain any fine grained state about traffic. As a consequence, today’s Internet is both highly scalable and robust. It is scalable because router complexity does not increase in either the number of flows or the number of nodes in the network, and it is robust because there is little state, if any, to update when a router fails or recovers. The scalability and robustness are two of the most important reasons behind the success of today’s Internet.
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Stoica, I. (2004). 1 Introduction. In: Stateless Core: A Scalable Approach for Quality of Service in the Internet. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2979. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24706-7_1
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