multipath routing algorithms

The Stock Market has become Battle of the Machines

As mentioned previously in something wicked this way comes, the New York Times gives a nanosecond blow by blow on the trading of Broadcom. High frequency traders can literally ascertain a stock trend, buy and sell shares in faster time than all of those little guys doing online trades from PCs. No surprise there that execution time could be manipulated, especially with multiple servers, the number of hops into the actual exchanges, and more of the more dubious routing and network traffic algorithm analysis possibilities.

Such technological wars have netted:

High-frequency traders generated about $21 billion in profits last year, the Tabb Group, a research firm, estimates.