An Analogy of a Network to an Electro Hydrodynamic Fluid Flow to Analyze the Energy Required for Transmitting a Packet in a Network Susceptible to Multiple Failures

Abstract

Computer networks have become pervasive to human life and now, people are inseparable from connectivity. The world’s networking communities have been constantly raising the bar of standards to provide the best possible service to their users. Every packet drop is treated as a blunder and a game ender by the companies. Standards lead to organizations that govern the service rules and policies, penalize the companies heavily if packets are lost, connections are severed mid-conversation. This makes the companies spare no expense into developing smarter and faster rerouting methods, packet retransmission protocols. The observation of these systems leads to believe that the system is modeled after an electro hydro dynamic fluid flow through a charged medium. In this paper the analogy and the analysis of the energy spent for rerouting packets in case of node failure, is presented in its complete mathematical form.