We are 2 graduate students working for the UCLA Internet Research Lab. We
have been working on TCP Sack for almost one year now and our project is
in its final phase. We are currently writing a report on our experiments
and it should be ready in one month.
We have a web page for our project that can be found at :
http://irl.cs.ucla.edu/sack.html
This page is under permanent construction and should be updated soon, but
it gives anyway a good idea of what we are working on.
When the report is done, it will be available on this page.
The first conclusions of our tests are that first, as expected, TCP Sack
has, in most cases, a better throughput than TCP Reno. This was confirmed
by experiments in our lab and over the Internet. We have quantified this
improvement for different delays and loss probabilities.
We have run more extensive tests in the case of long delay. We compared
the throughput of TCP Sack, for different loss probabilities, with the
throughput of TCP Reno and the maximum theoretical throughput.
Finally, we studied the negative impact that TCP Sack could have on other
competing connections. Our conclusion is that this negative impact is
low. TCP Sack improves its throughput by using more efficiently the
bandwith, otherwise wasted by TCP Reno, but does not steal an unfair share
of bandwith from its competitors.
We will keep on posting any important news concerning the development of
our project to the relevant mailing lists. We would like also to know
what are the research groups currently working on TCP Sack.
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TCP Sack Project
Internet Research Lab
Computer Science Department at UCLA
Team : Renaud Bruyeron [email protected]
Bruno Hemon [email protected]
Advisor : Lixia Zhang [email protected]
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