[e2e] TCP 'fast start'

[Tobias Poschwatta]

Hi, 

some more recent work to this point: the EFCM common congestion
controller developed in our group. See

Michael Savoric, Holger Karl, Morten Schlaeger, Tobias Poschwatta, and
Adam Wolisz, "Analysis and performance evaluation of the EFCM common
congestion controller for TCP connections", Computer Networks,
vol. 49, no. 2, pp. 269-294, October 2005, to appear

The complete results are available in the dissertation of Michael
Savoric:

http://edocs.tu-berlin.de/diss/2004/savoric_michael.htm


Tobias



On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 03:22:03PM -0400, S. Keshav wrote:
> Hi,
>     The idea of using environmental variables to optimize TCP start goes
> back a while. It is particularly useful for short transfers that complete
> before they reach the 'steady-state'. My students and I worked on this in
> 1999. We used Shared Passive Network Discovery, proposed by Seshan, Stemm,
> and Katz to discover connection parameters from a cluster of users to a
> popular destination, say, Yahoo, and used this information to choose initial
> TCP parameters. Though we only did simulations, our results looked pretty
> decent, so maybe Joe, you can actually implement our work :-)
> 
> For more details, please see:
> 
>  Y. Zhang, L. Qiu, and S. Keshav, "Speeding Up Short Data Transfers: Theory,
> Architecture Support, and Simulation Results," Proc. NOSSDAV 2000, Chapel
> Hill, NC, June 2000.
> 
> http://blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca/keshav/home/Papers/data/00/tcpspand_nossdav0
> 0.pdf
> 
> regards
> 
> keshav
> 
> 

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