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[ih] Statistical multiplexing
- Subject: [ih] Statistical multiplexing
- From: dhc at dcrocker.net (Dave Crocker)
- Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2020 06:35:11 -0700
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On 3/16/2020 3:16 AM, Vint Cerf via Internet-history wrote:
> I believe Weley Chu is the correct answer - UCLA. Steve Crocker and I were
> graduate students when Wes was a young professor there.
Since the Arpanet was based on stat mux, doesn't that qualify as earlier
than Chu?
> It is also fair to cite Hedy Lamarr who invented frequency hopping as a
> multiplexing method. Eventually that led to direct sequence spreading
> which was used in the Packet Radio system during the development of the
> Internet.
But what she proposed had fixed timings and fixed frequency residence,
didn't it? ie, it didn't have a statistical component?
d/
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