Systems and methods for providing automatic network optimization with application variables

A computer readable storage medium including computer readable instructions for automatically tuning a network having a protocol and a plurality of nodes forming a logical network, the computer readable storage medium comprising:

• instructions for receiving at least one value for at least one application variable, the at least one application variable representative of a network tuning parameter for the logical network and the at least one application variable additionally corresponding to a network time synchronization application variable, wherein at least one node of the plurality of nodes is configured to use the at least one value to detect and ignore replay messages;
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• instructions for altering, based upon said at least one value corresponding to the network time synchronization application variable, at least one of protocol timing and network behavior relating to the at least one node of said plurality of nodes in said network.

A distributed computing system capable of automatically tuning a network having a protocol and a plurality of nodes forming a logical network, comprising:

• at least one application variable representative of a network tuning parameter for the logical network corresponding to each node of the plurality of nodes, at least one value for the at least one application variable, wherein the at least one application variable additionally corresponds to network time synchronization application variable, further wherein each node of the plurality of nodes is configured to use the at least one value to detect and ignore replay messages;
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• wherein based upon said at least one value, at least one of protocol timing and network behavior relating to each node of said plurality of nodes in said network is altered.

A logical network formed by a plurality of nodes comprising:

• means for receiving at least one value for at least one application variable, the at least one application variable representative of a network tuning parameter for the logical network and the at least one application variable additionally corresponding to a network time synchronization application variable, wherein at least one node of the plurality of nodes is configured to use the at least one value to detect and ignore replay messages;
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• means for altering at least one of protocol timing and network behavior relating to the at least one node of said plurality of nodes in said network based upon said at least one value.