Dunigan's Network Peformance Links

Network Performance links

network measurement and monitoring

CAIDA tools and such

network monitoring task force and Internet Traffic Archive and Claffy traces and Claffy papers Claffy dissertation

Internet2 weekly flow data and Abiliene NOC reports

SLAC's Internet loss statistics

NLANR debugging TCP sessions tcpdump/tcptrace/xplot

CAIDA Measurement Tool Taxonomy and Internet Performance Measurement and Analysis ipma and NLANR's measurement and operations analysis

OC3 mon flows and traffic report and coralreef

TAAD traffic analysis and diagnostics

PAM2003 passive and active measurement workshop and Comparing passive and active monitoring '03

High Precision Active Probing for Internet Measurement

CAIDA's Internet Measurement Infrastructure and network modeling and simulation

IEPM Internet End-to-end Performance Monitoring

SLAC's network monitoring tools

SLAC summary end-to-end tools like amp, surveyor, nimi, pinger, etc

Internet2 end-to-end performance initiative and white paper

SLAC comparison of FAST, HSTCP, scalable TCP, reno and more recent comparsion 10/03

netspec

network weather service NWS

Remos A Resource Query Interface for Network-Aware Applications

globus/gridftp Predicting the Performance of Wide Area Data Transfers

LBL's netlogger and enable and enable paper and instrumented tcpdump and 300 Mbs TCP problems

LBL's JAMM grid sensor monitoring

Advanced Networks ippm network monitoring and their support page uses GPS

RIPE test traffic using GPS

netramet or Oc3mon

Cisco's netflow

Cooperation in Internet Data Acquisition and Analysis

Realtime Traffic Flow Measurement

http traces and tcplib and internet traffic and papers

TCP performance --OS and applications

Enabling High Performance Data Transfers IP/TCP network tuning and some tuned tools ftp rsh wu-ftpd and ibm's tuning tips

psc pages on tcp performance and OS's, high speed nets

LBL's TCP tuning guide including autonegotiate (for Win* autonegotiate look at NIC device control setting (control panel/network or system), or NIC diagnostic (3com), or last: registry)

NCSA TCP window tuning

Tuning Solaris 2.x TCP parameters and Sun's TCP/IP Tunable Parameters

tuning Windows 2000 registry or here XP and Windows 2000 TCP/IP implementation

dslreports TCP test and tweak tcpdump/tcptrace/ping java applet

windows 2000 tcp tuning or here and NLANR windows tcptune utility

Solaris TCP/IP tuning

rfc 2525 Known TCP Implementation Problems 3/99

SLAC's log of network problems and solutions

When the CRC and TCP checksum disagree

high perf vbns ftp and plots or llnl's xftp window scale and ncftp

TCP-tunable ftp's

Ripeanu's performance evaluation for bulk data transfers

web100.org full bandwidth with auto-tuning and freebsd web100

web100 paper Web100: Extended TCP Instrumentation for Research, Education and Diagnosis '03

tcphealth linux mods to monitor tcp connections

auto tuning

ORNL's auto tuning zoo summary

LANL's Weigle's A Comparison of TCP Automatic Tuning Techniques for Distributed Computing 2002

NLANR automatic TCP window tuning

NLANR Automatically Tuned FTP Client packet pair probes

network application tuning using Enable

Heffner's senior thesis on autotuning with web100

globus globeperf

Feng's Dynamic adjustment of TCP window sizes auto tuning (DRS), another DRS paper and dynamic right sizing software, other Feng papers

Mathis Automatic TCP Buffer Tuning

A Network-Aware Distributed Storage Cache for Data Intensive Environments tcp buffer tuning

Linux 2.4 does window autotuning and traffic shaping based on CBQ

IBM/Linux TCPIP Network Stack Performance in Linux Kernel 2.4. and 2.5s

linux high speed networking patches paper

Net100 wad web100 auto tuning daemon, virtual MSS, AIMD tuning, buffer tuning

TCP performance -- protocol research

IETF IPPM Internet Protocol Performance Metrics

daedalus papers

Jacobson's '88 congestion avoidance and control

congestion control papers and TCP/IP research papers

IETF transport area working group

transport protocols '03

Caltech FAST fast AQM scalable TCP, vegas like, linux and ns paper TCP Congestion Control in Fast Long-Distance Networks 7/02

papers from Protocols for Fast Long-Distance Networks 2/03

Floyd's HighSpeed TCP for Large Congestion Windows IETF draft, may '02

Floyd Limited Slow-Start for TCP with Large Congestion Windows may '02 max_ssthresh and ns simulation results and ns scripts and problems with slow start

CERN's Scalable TCP '03 and Kelly's paper Scalable TCP

Internet Congestion Control '02

Paxon's papers

TCP Implementation WG Mail Archive

paper The performance of TCP/IP for networks with high bandwidth-delay products and random loss

TCP and ATM in Wide Area Networks and Tierney's Experiences with TCP/IP over an ATM OC12 WAN

Dynamics of TCP Traffic over ATM Networks

Feng's The Failure of TCP in High-Performance Computational Grids atm/esnet ns

rfc2914 congestion control principles, best practices 9/2000, fairness, avoiding congestion collapse

rfc1323 high speed options (window scaling/ timestamp) and rfc2001 TCP slow-start/congestion avoidance

rfc 2581 Reno, TCP congestion control

TCP New Reno rfc2582 partial ack's

rfc 2309 queue management and congestion control

rfc1045 vmtp

tcp congestion avoidance and lecture slides and modeling tcp throughput

Modeling TCP Throughput: A Simple Model and its Empirical Validation

tcp/ip research paper links

Sally Floyd and initial window and 2002 internet draft Increasing TCP's Initial Window

papers on TCP changes and and high speed TCP Modifying TCP's Congestion Control for High Speeds '02

End-to-End Congestion Control papers, AIMD, fairness

AIMD, Fairness and Fractal Scaling of TCP Traffic

General AIMD Congestion Control AIMD variations that maintain TCP friendliness (0.31,0.875) rather than TCP's (1,0.5)

Exploiting the Efficiency and Fairness Potential of AIMD-based Congestion Avoidance and Control AIMD tcp sack, ns '02

binary increase TCP '03

BicTCP in linux 2.6

Loss-Delay Based Adjustment Algorithm a TCP friendly adjustment scheme (multimedia apps)

Phil Dykstra's pages and his jumbo frames and Mathis big MTU slides and Mathis increase MTU page and MTU discovery server

stanislav shalunov tcp tuning over wan and virtual mss, internet2 bulk transfer speed, giga tcp and TCP Armonk paper

TCP friendly papers and PSC's TCP-friendly links

MIT's binomial congestion control nonlinear and Bansal's simulation scripts

On the effective evaluation of TCP

On Improving the Fairness of TCP Congestion Avoidance increment by k (IBK) and Floyd's constant-rate c*rtt*rtt/cwnd

Floyd's Increasing TCP's Initial Window links and Allman's An Evaluation of TCP with Larger Initial Windows

Simulation Studies of Increased Initial TCP Window Size and rfc 2414

rfc2861 idle flows, invalidation of congestion window (slow start or burst)

rfc 1191 path MTU discovery

TCP real recvr based, pkt waves/trains

Cisco link fragmentation

IPv6 jumbograms rfc 2675 and TCP and UDP over IPv6 jumbograms rfc2147

Fragmentation Considered Harmful

utiliziing fragmentation

broken mss and fragments

TCP Westwood, sender-sider modified TCP CA (estimate cwnd) and slides and a paper

Westwood for Linux 2.4 and 2.6

Italian TCP westwood site

Hoe's Improving the Start-up Behavior of a Congestion Control Scheme for TCP ssthresh estimation (new reno)

CERN's linux 2.4 mods for initial ssthresh and cwnd and AIMD tests

Keshav's A Control-theoretic Approach to Flow Control packet-pair probes

End-to-end packet delay and loss behavior in the internet

Internet2 Shulunov's gigabit TCP (GigE jumbo frames, zero copy)

Internet2 land speed record and Microsoft's land speed record 2000 2 streams, aggregate rate 957 Mbs, jumboframes single flow winner: 751 Mbs speedy.c

non TCP transport

MFTP or draft multicast UDP FTP or here

UDP RDP RFC 908, Reliable Data Protocol update RFC 1151

rfc 2960 sctp, Stream Control Transmission Protocol, reliable out of order delivery, multi-link, TCP-like, and IETF sigtran working group

sctp.org and many sctp links

IBM/linux sctp

linux sctp

RDMA os bypass

xcp Internet congestion control for high bandwidth-delay product envrionments, new protocol, router mods, avoids losses and fair 6/02

Floyd/Jain Quick-Start for TCP and IP initial rate requests, router mods, 6/02 or here in ns 2.26

scps space communication protocols

STP Scheduled Transfer Protocol and comparing STP to TCP and SGI's stp