Kurt Mix, who had worked for BP until January 2012, was charged in federal court with obstructing justice for deleting hundreds of text messages concerning the flow rate of oil despite having received legal notification to preserve the correspondence.
Until this week, the only BP employee to be arrested and indicted was a low-level engineer, Kurt Mix, who has been charged with obstruction of justice for deleting text messages about company estimates of the flow rate from the spill.
The government has asserted that in October 2010, Mr. Mix, of Katy, Tex., deleted from his smartphone a string of more than 200 messages with a supervisor about the flow rate estimated at the time of a failed effort to contain the spill.
Some of the messages were forensically recovered; one contained a flow rate estimate three times higher than what BP had publicly attested to at the time.
A low-level engineer, Kurt Mix, was previously charged with obstruction of justice for deleting text messages about company estimates of the spill flow rate.
In addition to flood incident reports, valuable hydraulic data such as the extent and depths of inundated areas and flow rate estimates can be computed using messages, photos and videos produced by citizens.
When the total flow rate exceeds the threshold, all kinds of messages will be dropped randomly, as shown in Fig. 4.
Common flow rate limiting only supports setting a total threshold for all message flows.
Protocol type based flow rate limiting supports setting different thresholds for all types of message flows.
It uses the mean data rate and the mean packet-size values to calculate the resource needed by each message flow.
