I had a very hard time with this work in fact. I had a very bad comment from a computer scientist. The exact wording is now forgotten my me, but the message I remembered until now is very clear.
no one in the field of network engineering would need your work. it is useless
Yes! I don't know what does it use for, but I work on it because it is something unclear to me and also unclear to somebody else.
I spent months and months finding papers to study, wishing I can come across some idea on the question "what does my finding use for in network engineering?" I know, and I knew this is silly. I started on this work just because it is an unclear phenomenon, but not because there is a clear application to network engineering.
But I am so weak... As a person with a Bachelor degree in engineering, I can't take such a comment with ease from a computer scientist - a well respected professional as seen by engineers.
What a nice coincidence. I rewrote my whole manuscript in this morning, and rewrote my whole mindset about this research. Forget about whether it is useful or not to engineering, just go for it.
With this new mindset, I happened to have a chance to talk with a prestigious mathematician - a even more respected professional as seen by engineers. And we can talk! OMG ...
I knew I have to do what I think is right to me, if I want myself to go far and smooth on my road. But sometime authority has so much influential power ...
I hadn't be able to write so much in my manuscript in one day, and I hadn't been for a long time feeling so excited with it.
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