TCP/IP RESEARCH PAPERS
The following links are pointers to the author's copies of various
research papers discussing TCP.
- LAN
Interconnection via ATM Satellite Links for CAD
Applications: The UNOM Experiment
- Stefano Agnelli and Vic Dewhurst.
In Proceedings of IEEE ICC, June 1996.
- TCP Performance Over Satellite Links.
- Mark Allman, Chris Hayes, Hans Kruse, and Shawn Ostermann.
In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Telecommunication Systems, March 1997.
- An Application-Level Solution to TCP's Inefficiencies.
- Mark Allman, Hans Kruse, and Shawn Ostermann.
In Proceedings of the first International Workshop on Satellite-based Information Services (WOSBIS), November 1996.
- Fixing Two BSD TCP Bugs.
- Mark Allman.
Technical Report CR-204151, NASA Glenn Research Center, October 1997.
- Improving TCP Performance Over Satellite Channels.
- Mark Allman.
Master's thesis, Ohio University, June 1997.
- I-TCP: Indirect TCP for Mobile Hosts.
- A. Bakre and B. R. Badrinath.
In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), May 1995.
- TCP Extension for High-Speed Paths, October 1990.
- Robert Braden, Van Jacobson, and Lixia Zhang.
RFC 1185.
- TCP Vegas: New Techniques for Congestion Detection and Avoidance.
- Lawrence Brakmo, Sean O'Malley, and Larry Peterson.
In ACM SIGCOMM, pages 24-35, August 1994.
- Performance Problems in BSD4.4 TCP.
- Lawrence Brakmo and Larry Peterson.
ACM Computer Communications Review, 25(5):69-86, 1995.
- TCP Vegas: End to End Congestion Avoidance on a Global Internet.
- Lawrence Brakmo and Larry Peterson.
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 13(8), October 1995.
- The Effects of Asymmetry on TCP Performance.
- Hari Balakrishnan, Venkata Padmanabhan, and Randy Katz.
In ACM MobiCom, September 1997.
- A comparison of Mechanisims for Improving TCP Performance over Wireless Links.
- Hari Balakrishnan, Venkata N. Padmanabhan, Srinivasan Seshan, and Randy Katz.
In ACM SIGCOMM, August 1996.
- Requirements for Internet Hosts - Communication Layers, October 1989.
- Robert Braden.
RFC 1122.
- T/TCP - TCP Extensions for Transactions: Functional Specification, July 1994.
- Robert Braden.
RFC1644.
- Improving TCP/IP Performance Over Wireless Networks.
- Hari Balakrishnan, Srinivasan Seshan, Etan Amir, and Randy Katz.
In ACM MobiCom, November 1995.
- Characteristics of Wide-Area TCP/IP Conversations.
- Ramon Caceres, Peter Danzig, Sugih Jamin, and Danny Mitzel.
In ACM SIGCOMM, 1991.
- Experimental and Simulation Performance Results of TCP/IP over High-Speed ATM over ACTS
- Charalambous P. Charalambos, Georgios
Y. Lazarou, Victor S. Frost, Joseph Evans, and Roelof
Jonkman.
In In Proceedings of IEEE ICC,
June 1998.
- Probing TCP Implementations.
- Douglas E. Comer and John C. Lin.
In USENIX Summer 1994 Conference, 1994.
- Low-Loss TCP/IP Header Compression for Wireless Networks.
- Mikael Degermark, Mathias Engan, Bjorn Nordgren, and Stephan Pink.
In ACM MobiCom, November 1996.
- tcplib: A Library of TCP/IP Traffic characteristics.
- Peter Danzig and Sugih Jamin.
Technical Report CS-SYS-91-01, University of Southern California, October 1991.
- TCP Extensions for Space Communications.
- Robert Durst, Gregory Miller, and Eric Travis.
In ACM MobiComm, November 1996.
- Simulation-based Comparisons of Tahoe, Reno, and SACK TCP.
- Kevin Fall and Sally Floyd.
Computer Communications Review, July 1996.
- Random Early Detection Gateways for Congestion Avoidance.
- Sally Floyd and Van Jacobson.
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 1(4):397-413, August 1993.
- TCP and Explicit Congestion Notification.
- Sally Floyd.
Computer Communications Review, 24(5):10-23, October 1994.
- TCP and Successive Fast Retransmits.
- Sally Floyd.
Technical report, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, May 1995.
- TCP Big Window and NAK Options, June, 1989.
- Richard Fox.
RFC 1106.
- Analyzing the Performance of New TCP Extensions Over Satellite Links.
- Chris Hayes.
Master's thesis, Ohio University, August 1997.
- Performance Interactions Between P-HTTP and TCP Implementations.
- John Heidmann.
Computer Communication Review, 27(2):65-73, April 1997.
- Start-up Dynamics of TCP's Congestion Control and Avoidance Schemes.
- Janey Hoe.
Master's Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, June 1995.
- Improving the Start-up Behavior of a Congestion Control Scheme for TCP.
- Janey Hoe.
In ACM SIGCOMM, August 1996.
- Compressing TCP/IP Headers For Low-Speed Serial Links, February 1990.
- Van Jacobson.
RFC 1144.
- Modified TCP Congestion Avoidance Algorithm.
- Van Jacobson.
Technical report, LBL, April 1990. Email to the end2end-interest mailing list. URL: ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/email/vanj.90apr30.txt.
- TCP Extensions for Long-Delay Paths, October 1988.
- Van Jacobson and Robert Braden.
RFC 1072.
- TCP Extensions for High Performance, May 1992.
- Van Jacobson, Robert Braden and David Borman.
RFC 1323.
-
Congestion Avoidance and Control.
- Van Jacobson and Michael Karels.
In ACM SIGCOMM, 1988.
- Increasing TCP Throughput by Using an Extended Acknowledgment Interval.
- Stacy Johnson.
Master's thesis, Ohio University, June 1995.
- Improving Round-Trip Time Estimates in Reliable Transport Protocols.
- Phil Karn and Craig Partridge.
In ACM SIGCOMM, pages 2-7, August 1987.
- HTTP Page Transfer Rates Over Geo-Stationary Satellite Links.
- Hans Kruse, Mark Allman, Jim Griner, Diepchi Tran.
In Proceedings of the Sixth International
Conference on Telecommunication Systems, March 1998.
- Performance of Common Data Communications Protocols Over Long Delay Links: An Experimental Examination.
- Hans Kruse.
In 3rd International Conference on Telecommunication Systems Modeling and Design, 1995.
- Forward Acknowledgment: Refining TCP Congestion Control.
- Matt Mathis and Jamshid Mahdavi.
In ACM SIGCOMM, August 1996.
- TCP Rate-Halving with Bounding Parameters.
- Matt Mathis and Jamshid Mahdavi.
Technical Report, Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center, October 1996.
- TCP Selective Acknowledgement Options, October 1996.
- Matt Mathis, Jamshid Mahdavi, Sally Floyd, and Allyn Romanow.
RFC 2018.
- Observing TCP Dynamics in Real Networks.
- Jeffrey C. Mogul.
In ACM SIGCOMM, pages 305-317, 1992.
- TCP Behavior with Many Flows.
- Robert Morris.
In Fifth IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, October 1997.
- The Macroscopic Behavior of the TCP Congestion Avoidance Algorithm.
- Matthew Mathis, Jeff Semke, Jamshid Mahdavi, and Teunis Ott.
Computer Communication Review, 27(3), July 1997.
- Congestion Control in IP/TCP Internetworks.
- John Nagle.
Computer Communication Review, 14(4), October 1984.
- Congestion Control in IP/TCP Internetworks, January 1984.
- John Nagle.
RFC 896.
- Growth Trends in Wide-Area TCP Connections.
- Vern Paxson.
IEEE Network, 8(4):8-17, July/August 1994.
- Automated Packet Trace Analysis of TCP Implementations.
- Vern Paxson.
In ACM SIGCOMM, September 1997.
- End-to-End Internet Packet Dynamics.
- Vern Paxson.
In ACM SIGCOMM, September 1997.
- Networking Using Direct Broadcast Satellite.
- Venkata Padmanabhan, Hari Balakrishnan, Keith Sklower, Elan Amir, and Randy Katz.
In Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Satellite-based Information Services (WOSBIS), November 1996.
- Transmission Control Protocol, September 1981.
- Jon Postel.
RFC 793.
- TCP Performance Over Satellite Links.
- Craig Partridge and Tim Shepard.
IEEE Network, 11(5), September/October 1997.
- TCP Packet Trace Analysis.
- Tim Shepard.
Technical Report TR-494, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, February, 1991.
- TCP Slow Start, Congestion Avoidance, Fast Retransmit, and Fast Recovery Algorithms, January 1997.
- W. Richard Stevens.
RFC 2001.
- Improving Restart of Idle TCP Connections.
- Vikram Visweswaraiah and John Heidemann.
Technical report, ISI, August 1997.
- High Performance TCP in ANSNET.
- Curtis Villamizar and Cheng Song.
Computer Communications Review, 24(5):45-60, October, 1995.
- Why TCP Timers Don't Work Well.
- Lixia Zhang.
In ACM SIGCOMM, pages 397-405, August, 1986.
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