Additionally, non-equilibrium statistical mechanics,
which studies macroscopic systems in which
the dominance of statistics disappears, provides
Like the Shannon
limit for links,
a functional MANET
information theory
will provide a target
for what can actually
be achieved with
great engineering,
and should avoid
degenerate cases like
the above two
examples where the
capacity may appear
large, but is in fact
very fragile.
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