Papers on TCP, congestion control and related works
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Sections
- Miscellanous
- TCP Optimization and Tuning
- TCP: Parallel streams
- TCP studies, performances
- New TCP versions
for fat long pipes
- TCP Westwood, Wireless
- TCP Vegas
- TCP on variable
bandwidth environments
- Congestion Control (theory)
- Congestion Control
(TCP, protocols)
- AQM & Buffers
- Bandwidth Allocation
- Transport protocols and congestion control in wireless sensor
networks
- Links to other
TCP related web pages
Miscellanous
Effect of Malicious Traffic on the Network
Kunchan Lan, Alefiya Hussain, Debojyoti Dutta
Stream Control
Transmission Protocol: The design of a new reliable transport protocol
for
IP networks
Iván Arias Rodríguez
The NewReno Modification
to TCP’s Fast Recovery Algorithm (RFC 3782)
An Introduction to the Stream Control
Transmission Protocol (SCTP) (RFC 3286)
Performance Enhancing Proxies Intended to
Mitigate Link-Related Degradations (RFC 3135)
Stream Control Transmission Protocol (RFC
2960)
The Temporal and Topological Characteristics of
BGP Path Changes
Di-Fa Chang, Ramesh Govindan, John Heidemann
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TCP Optimization and
Tuning
A TCP Tuning Daemon
Tom Dunigan, Matt Mathis, Brian Tierney
SC 2002
Automatic Specialization of Protocol Stacks in
Operating System Kernels
Sapan Bhatia, Charles Consel, Anne-Francoise Le Meur, Calton Pu
LCN 04
See Tom
Dunigan web pages on TCP auto-tuning
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TCP: parallel streams
See Tom
Dunigan web pages on Parallel TCP
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TCP studies, performances,
modeling
Behavior of TCP-like elastic trafic at
a buffered bottleneck router
Hans-Peter Schwefel
Infocom 2001
TCP Behavior with Many Flows
Robert Morris
Modeling TCP Throughput: A Simple Model and its
Empirical Validation
Jitendra Padhye et al.
1998
Microscopic Examination of TCP flows over
trans-atlantic Links
A. Antony et al.
FGCS 2003
Performance Evaluation and Comparison of
Westwood+, New Reno, and Vegas TCP Congestion Control
Luigi A. Grieco and Saverio Mascolo
CCR
TCP Startup Performance in Large
Bandwidth Delay Networks
Ren Wang, Giovanni Pau, Kenshin Yamada, M.Y. Sanadidi, and Mario Gerla
Infocom 2004
The End-to-End Performance Effects of
Parallel TCP Sockets on a Lossy Wide-Area Network
Thomas J. Hacker, Brian D. Athey, Brian Noble
IPDPS 2001
Closed Loop Analysis of
the Bottleneck Buffer under Adaptive Window Controlled Transfer
of HTTP-Like Traffic
Arzad A. Kherani, Anurag Kumar
Effect of Large Buffers on TCP Queueing Behavior
Jinsheng Sun, Moshe Zukerman, King-Tim Ko, Guanrong Chen and Sammy Chan
Infocom 2004
TCP Throughput Analysis under Transmission Error and
Congestion Losses
Francois Baccelli and Ki Baek Kim
Exact Sampling of TCP Window States
Ashish Goel, Michael Mitzenmacher
Understanding XCP: Equilibrium and Fairness
Steven H. Low , Lachlan L. H. Andrew, Bartek P. Wydrowski
Infocom 2005
TCP congestion avoidance: A network calculus interpretation and
performance inprovements
Mingyu Chen, Jinsong Zhang, Manohar Murthy, Kamal Premaratne
Infocom 2005
Modelling and Stability of FAST TCP
Jiantao Wang, Xiaoliang Wei, Steven Low
Infocom 2005
See the TCP
performance and issues web page from T. Ferrari
See the TCP
modeling and related topics web page from Padhye
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New TCP versions
for fat long pipes
Binary Increase Congestion Control (BIC)
for Fast Long-Distance Networks
Lisong Xu, Khaled Harfoush, and Injong Rhee
Infocom 2004
SABUL: A High Performance Data Transfer
Protocol
Yunhong Gu, Xinwei Hong, Marco Mazzucco, and Robert Grossman
Cheng Jin, David Wei,
Steven Low
Congestion Control for High Bandwidth Delay Product
Networks (XCP)
Dina Katabi, Mark Handley, Charlie Rohrs
SIGCOMM 2002
An Implementation and Experimental Study of the
eXplicit Control Protocol (XCP)
Yongguang Zhang, Thomas Henderson
Infocom 2005
Understanding XCP: Equilibrium and
Fairness
S. H. Low, L. Andrew, B. Wydrowsk
Infocom 2005
Scalable TCP: Improving performances in high speed wide area networks
Tom Kelly
PFLDNET 2003.
Also in ACM Computer Communications Review, April 2003.
Evaluation of Advanced TCP Stacks on Fast
Long-Distance Production Networks
Hadrien Bullot, R. Les Cottrell, and Richard
Hughes-Jones
PFLDNet 2003.
Also in Journal of Grid Computing Vol 1(4). Dec 2003
HighSpeed TCP for Large Congestion Windows (RFC
3649)
Scalable
Performance Signalling and Congestion Avoidance (CADPC/PTP)
Michael Welzl
Kluwer Academic Publishers, August 2003, ISBN
1-4020-7570-7
See also all papers in PFLDNet, Workshop on Protocols for Fast Long
Distance
Networks
PFLDNet
2003, PFLDNet
2004, PFLDNet
2005
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TCP Westwood, wireless
TCP
Bulk Repeat
G. Yang, R. Wang, M. Gerla and M. Y. Sanadidi
Computer Communications Journal (Elsevier), V. 28, I. 5, 2005
CLAMP: A System to Enhance the
Performance of Wireless Access Networks
Lachlan L. H. Andrew, Stephen V. Hanly and Rami G. Mukhtar
GlobeCom 2003
TCPW
with Bulk Repeat in Next Generation Wireless Networks
G. Yang, R. Wang, M. Y. Sanadidi and M. Gerla
38th IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2003),
Anchorage, Alaska, 2003
Using Adaptive Rate Estimation to Provide Enhanced and Robust Transport
over Heterogeneous Networks
Ren Wang, Massimo Valla, M.Y. Sanadidi, and Mario Gerla
ICNP 2002
Flow Aggregation for Enhanced TCP over Wide-Area
Wireless
Rajiv Chakravorty, Sachin Katti, Jon Crowcroft, Ian Pratt
Improving TCP Congestion Control over
Internets with Heterogeneous Transmission Media
Christina Parsa and J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves
A Survey of TCP Performance on Wireless
Links
Brooke Shrader
Adaptive Bandwidth Share
Estimation in TCP Westwood
Ren Wang, Massimo Valla, M.Y. Sanadidi, and Mario Gerla
Globecom 2002
Enhancing TCP Performance in
Networks with Small Buffers
Ashu Razdan, Alok Nandan, Ren Wang, Medy Sanadidi and Mario Gerla
ICCCN 2002
TCP Westwood: Congestion
Window Control Using Bandwidth Estimation
Mario Gerla, M. Y. Sanadidi, Ren Wang, and Andrea Zanella
Globlecom 2001
TCP Westwood: Bandwidth Estimation for
Enhanced Transport over Wireless Links
Saverio Mascolo, Claudio Casetti, Mario Gerla, M. Y. Sanadidi, and Ren
Wang
MobiCom 2001
An Analytical Study of a Tradeoff Between
Transmission Power and FEC for TCP Optimization in Wireless Networks
Laura Galluccio, Giacomo Morabito, Sergio Palazzo
See the TCP Westwood web
page
Research on modeling wireless links for evaluating performance of
transport protocols (ISI, Berkeley)
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TCP Vegas
See the TCP
Vegas section of Tom Dunigan web pages
TCP on
variable bandwidth
environments
Packet Pair Bandwidth Estimation: Stochastic Analysis of
a Single Congested Node
S. Kang, X. Liu, M. Dai, D. Loguinov
ICNP 2004
Performance of TCP/IP over ABR on
ATM Networks
Shiv Kalyanaraman, Raj Jain, Sonia Fahmy, Rohit Goyal, Fang Lu and
Saragur Srinidhi
Proceedings of IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference
(Globecom'96)
Performance of TCP over ABR on ATM
backbone and with various VBR traffic patterns
Shiv Kalyanaraman, Raj Jain, Sonia Fahmy, Rohit Goyal, Jianping Jiang
and Seong-Cheol Kim
Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'97)
An Active Proxy Based Architecture for TCP in Heterogeneous Variable
Bandwidth Networks
Debojyoti Dutta, Yongguang Zhang
Globecom 2001
An Early Bandwidth Notification (EBN)
Architecture for Dynamic Bandwidth Environment
Debojyoti Dutta, Yongguang Zhang
Improving the Performance of TCP over the ATM-UBR service
Rohit Goyal, Raj Jain, Shiv Kalyanaraman, Sonia Fahmy, Bobby Vandalore
Computer Communications, Vol. 21, No. 10, July 1998
UBR+: Improving Performance of TCP over ATM-UBR
service
Rohit Goyal, Raj Jain, Shiv Kalyanaraman, Sonia Fahmy and
Seong-Cheol Kim
Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'97)
TCP over High Speed Variable Capacity Links: A
Simulation Study for Bandwidth Allocation
Henrik Abrahamsson, Olof Hagsand and Ian Marsh
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Congestion Control (theory)
Internet Congestion Control: An Analytical
Perspective
S. Low, F. Paganini, J. Doyle
IEEE Control Systems Magazine , January 2002.
Congestion control for
high performance, stability and fairness in general networks
F. Paganini, Z. Wang, J. Doyle, S. Low
to appear in IEEE Transactions on Networking.
Congestion Control in Computer
Networks: Issues and Trends
R. Jain
IEEE Network, May 1990
Performance Analysis and Stochastic Stability of Congestion Control
Protocols
Eitan Altman, Konstantin Avrachenkov, Arzad Kherani, Balakrishna Prabhi
Infocom 2005
Fairness in MIMD Congestion Control Algorithms
Eitan Altman, Konstantin Avrachenkov, Balakrishna Prabhi
Infocom 2005
See R. Srikant's
publication pages on Congestion Control and Pricing for a Heterogeneous
Internet
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Congestion Control
(TCP, protocols)
Differential Congestion Notification: Taming the
Elephants
L. Le, J. Aikat, K. Jeffay, D. Smith
ICNP 2004
A Report on Some Recent Developments in TCP Congestion Control
Sally Floyd
IEEE Comm. Mag. 2001
TCP Congestion Control (RFC 2581)
Explicit Transport Error Notification
(ETEN) for Error-Prone Wireless and Satellite Networks
Rajesh Krishnan, James P.G. Sterbenz, Wesley M. Eddy, Craig Partridge,
Mark Allman
Computer Networks, Oct. 2004
AdaVegas: Adaptive Control for TCP Vegas
Amir Maor, Yishay Mansour
Equation Based Congestion Control for Unicast
Applications (TFRC)
Sally Floyd, Mark Handley, Jitendra Padhye, Jorg Widmer
SIGCOMM 2000
Increasing TCP’s Initial Window (RFC 3390)
Recommendations on Queue Management and
Congestion Avoidance in the Internet (RFC 2309)
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AQM & Buffers
JetMax: Scalable Max-Min Congestion
Control for High-Speed Heterogeneous Networks
Yueping Zhang, Derek Leonard and Dmitri Loguinov
Infocom 2006
CHOKe: A stateless active queue
management scheme for approximating fair bandwidth allocation
Rong Pan, Balaji Prabhakar, Konstantinos Psounis
Infocom 2000
Sizing Router Buffers
G. Appenzeller, I. Keslassy, N. McKeown
SigComm 2004
Effect of Large Buffers on TCP Queueing
Behavior
Jinsheng Sun, Moshe Zukerman, King-Tim Ko, Guanrong Chen, Sammy Chan
Infocom 2004
Dual-resource TCP/AQM for
processing-constrained Networks
M. Shin, S. Chong, I. Rhee
Infocom 2006 & IEEE TON
Stochastic Fair Blue: A Queue Management
Algorithm for Enforcing Fairness
Wu-Chang Feng, Dilip D. Kandlur, Debanjan Saha, Kang G. Shin
Infocom 2001
On Designing Improved Controllers for AQM Routers
Supporting TCP Flows
CV Hollot, Vishal Misra, Don Towsley and Wei-Bo Gong
Infocom 2001
Analysis and Design of Controllers for AQM
Routers Supporting TCP Flows
CV Hollot, Vishal Misra, Don Towsley and Wei-Bo Gong
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 47(6), June
2002
Limit Behavior of ECN/RED Gateways Under a Large
Number of TCP Flows
Peerapol Tinnakornsrisuphap, Armand M. Makowski
TCP Networks Stabilized by Buffer-Based AQMs
H. Han, C. V. Hollot, Y. Chait, V. Misra
Infocom 2004
A Robust Nonlinear PI Controller
for Improving AQM Performance
XiaoLin Changa, Jogesh K. Muppalaa, Jen-te Yub
ICC 04
A new TCP/AQM for Stable Operation in Fast Networks
F. Paganini, Z. Wang, S. Low, J. Doyle
IEEE Infocom 2003.
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Transport protocols and congestion control in wireless sensor
networks
Mitigating Congestion in Wireless Sensor
Networks
Bret Hull, Kyle Jamieson, Hari Balakrishnan
ACM SenSys 2004
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Bandwidth Allocation
Bandwidth Allocation Policies
for Unicast and Multicast Flows
A. Legout, J. Nonnenmacher and E. W. Biersack
Infocom 1999
An End-to-End QoS Framework with On-Demand
Bandwidth Reconfiguration
Mei Yanga et al.
Infocom 2004
Dynamic LSP Provisioning in Overlay, Augmented, and
Peer Architectures for IP/MPLS over WDM Networks
Sunggy Koo, Gokhan Sahin, and Suresh Subramaniam
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Links to other
TCP related web pages (those not listed above)
If you have a web page where you compiled lots of TCP related links and
you would like me to reference it, just mail me the URL and I'll be
glad to add it.
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