Statement-Restatement Technique:
Problem Statement: UDP internet traffic frequently causes delays and information loss.
Real Problem: Inefficient routing algorithms and infrastructure leads to UDP internet traffic happening in the first place, which can then cause delay and information loss. On a 2-dimensionally- modelled network, packets may be sent through congested routes and as traffic builds up, available paths to reroute away from congestion may become unavailable.
Present State - Desired State Strategy (PS-DS):
Present State: The internet is highly susceptible to information loss and delay in the form of backed up networks and security threats due to far-from-ideal routing solutions.
Desired State: The internet has efficient routing systems that prevent information loss and delay.
Kepner-Tregoe (KT) Situation Analysis:
Timing: Internet nodes must communicate before a blockage occurs so that appropriate routes can be chosen at a time before a potential backup occurs. In a more general sense, timing is somewhat important because the internet needs to be redesigned to handle more demanding information flows sooner rather than later.
Trend: The problem of internet information loss and delay is a very general and common problem. All users of the internet have experienced loss or delay and to a relatively similar degree, compared to all other users.
Impact: Information loss and delay has a global impact on all internet users and infrastructure. They are the primary problems that the internet faces and have extremely high impact on user experience. Almost all problems with the internet can be attributed to information loss or delay.
Kepner-Tregoe (KT) Problem Analysis:
Who: Anyone who has ever used the internet has experienced information loss and delay. Different users like corporations, governments, gamers, and casual browsers experience these problems differently and with different levels of severity, but are nonetheless all affected.
What: Inefficient routing algorithms and procedures can cause information loss and delay when there are high volumes of traffic being transmitted on an unstable or unprepared network.
Where: This problem takes place at the internet's software infrastructure. Upgrading and decentralizing physical end nodes may help in a general sense, but changing the routing algorithms and software infrastructure would have a much more profound impact on information loss and packet delay.
When: This problem has been happening constantly ever since the internet was created and delay and information loss is bound to happen with every data transmission over the internet.
Why: Often packets are routed inefficiently through already congested or potentially congestible areas of a network.
How: Packets can build up in queues and routers and cause jams that delay the network flow because the temporal cost of sending information over the internet is not zero. Also, packets may be dropped in congested areas as nodes struggle to route packets while keeping up with the high demand, especially with UDP for dynamic content, which is a very basic protocol without the safety features that TCP uses to ensure packets have arrived.
Kepner-Tregoe (KT) Decision Analysis:
The problem of information loss and delay can be eliminated by changing routing protocols and creating new network infrastructure so that the chance of a backed-up route is minimized. Changing routing protocols to something more efficient would allow packets to route around existing jams and potentially onto another subnet like a RON.
Kepner-Tregoe (KT) Potential Problem Analysis:
New occurrences of this problem can be prevented by reducing congestion and traffic through a concentrated area of a network. The other problem with this is that these congestions happen constantly as billions of devices use the internet at once all the time. Adding software infrastructure that guarantees that packets will avoid high-traffic areas and into a RON and violate the Triangle Inequality Theorem in a networking sense will prevent this problem from occurring in the future.