The topic of my research:

Predict quickly the throughput of a TCP stream by inspecting the pattern of a few segments that arrived recently at the receiver. Using the knowledge of TCP, a prediction of the future throughput can be made based on the patterns observed and a quality ranking can be assigned to indicate the expected accuracy of the prediction.

Recent publication:

• Tsung-i Huang. "Fast Pattern-Based Throughput Prediction for TCP Bulk Transfers". Ph.D. dissertation, University of Houston, May 2006. (PS, PDF; presentation - PDF)
• Tsung-i (Mark) Huang and Jaspal Subhlok. "Fast Pattern-Based Throughput Prediction for TCP Bulk Transfers". The Third Workshop on Grids and Advanced Networks (GAN'05), May 10, 2005, Cardiff, UK. (PS, PDF, PowerPoint).

Related Tools:

Network Performance Measurement related tools:

• Performance Measurement Tools Taxonomy from CAIDA, detail description page1 and page2 (http://www.caida.org/tools/taxonomy/performance.xml)
• TCP Performance Tools from NLANR (http://ncne.nlanr.net/software/tools/tcp.html)

Related Research:

TCP - general:

• Mark Allman, Aaron Falk. On the Effective Evaluation of TCP (PS, PDF) ACM Computer Communication Review, Vol. 29, No.5, October 1999. (Citeseer)
• Sally Floyd and Vern Paxson. Difficulties in Simulating the Internet (PS, PDF). IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol.9, No.4, pp. 392-403, August, 2001. (Citeseer)
• Yin Zhang, Lee Breslau, Vern Paxson, and Scott Shenker. On the Characteristics and Origins of Internet Flow Rates (PS.gz). Proceedings of ACM Sigcomm 2002, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, August 2002. (Citeseer)
  (T-RAT is introducted for analyzing packet-level TCP dynamics.)

Research groups:

• i.c.s.i Center for Internet Research (ICIR) - home page (http://www.icir.org/).
• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) Network Research Group - home page (http://www-nrg.ee.lbl.gov/), papers.
• Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) Networking Research Group - home page (http://www.psc.edu/networking/research.html), papers, projects, TCP Performance Tuning, and Treno.
• Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) Computer Networking Group - home page (http://www.slac.stanford.edu/comp/net/)
  • Internet End-to-end Performance Monitoring (IEPM) project (http://www-iepm.slac.stanford.edu/)
  • Network Monitoring Tools
  • Wide Area Network Monitoring at SLAC

Research Projects:

• Internet Measurement Infrastructure from CAIDA, projects listing, comparison (http://www.caida.org/analysis/performance/measinfra/)
• Passive Measurement and Analysis (PMA) from NLANR (http://pma.nlanr.net/PMA/)
• Active Measurement Project (AMP) from NLANR (http://amp.nlanr.net/)
• National Internet Measurement Infrastructure (NIMI) from NLANR (http://ncne.nlanr.net/nimi/)
• Internet End-to-end Performance Monitoring (IEPM) project from SLAC (http://www-iepm.slac.stanford.edu/)
• Waikato Applied Network Dynamics (WAND) research group from University of Waikato, NZ (http://wand.cs.waikato.ac.nz/)
• Wide-area Network Measurement and Monitoring Services (WNMMS) from UC Berkeley (http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~yanchen/research/wnmms/)
• Network Weather Service from NPACI led by Rich Wolski (http://nws.cs.ucsb.edu/)
• Web100 project (http://www.web100.org/)

Individuals:

• Sally Floyd from ICIR - home page (http://www.icir.org/floyd/floyd.html), papers, research projects, and questions.
• Ver Paxson from ICIR - home page (http://www.icir.org/vern/), papers.
• Mark Allman from BBN Technologies - home page (http://roland.lerc.nasa.gov/~mallman/), papers.
• Stefan Savage from UCSD - home page (http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/~savage/), papers, old home page at UW, and sting.
• Rich Wolski from UCSB - home page (http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~rich), papers and Network Weather Service.

Conferences:

• IEEE INFOCOM - The Conference on Computer Communications (http://www.ieee-infocom.org/)
• ACM SIGCOMM conference (http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/old-confs.html)
• International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC) (http://www.hpdc.org/)
• Global Grid Forum (http://www.gridforum.org/)
• Supercomputing conference (http://www.supercomp.org/)

Network Traces:

• Internet Traffic Archive from LBL (http://ita.ee.lbl.gov/html/traces.html)
• NLANR network traffic packet header traces from PMA at NLANR (http://pma.nlanr.net/Traces/)
• PMA Long Traces Archive (http://pma.nlanr.net/Traces/long/)
• High performance networking : 10 GbE test at CERN (with tcpdump traces of 2+ Gbps TCP streams)
• 10GE end-to-end TCP tests at SLAC at Stanford (with tcpdump traces of TCP streams)

Other Reference:

Helpful resources:

• ResearchIndex, the NECI scientific literature digital library. (http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/)
• Network Bibliography (http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~hgs/netbib/)
• RFC Database, search RFC (http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc.html)
• Internet Protocol Design and Implementation, by Van Jacobson, including TCP/IP related RFCs, papers, talks, and e-mails, plus orginal posts on end2end mailing list and newsgroup (http://www.root.org/ip-development/)
• IEEE INFOCOM - The Conference on Computer Communications (http://www.ieee-infocom.org/)
• ACM SIGCOMM - Special Interest Group on Data Communication, you can find past SIGCOMM conference here including papers (http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/)
• ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking (http://www.ieee-acm-ton.org/) For UH students only, how to connect from Home or Office to access TON papers via ACM Digital Library.
• ACM Communication Review (http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/ccr/)

Research in general:

• Advice on Research and Writing (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mleone/web/how-to.html)
• Internetworking Research Tips, tips from Mark Allman (http://roland.grc.nasa.gov/~mallman/tips/)

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