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MPCP: multi packet congestion-control protocol
In the recent years, end-to-end feedback-based variants of TCP as well as VCP have emerged as practical alternatives of congestion control by requiring the use of only one or two ECN bits in the IP header. However, all such schemes suffer from a ...
GT: picking up the truth from the ground for internet traffic
Much of Internet traffic modeling, firewall, and intrusion detection research requires traces where some ground truth regarding application and protocol is associated with each packet or flow. This paper presents the design, development and experimental ...
SIGCOMM: a view from the chair
In my first month as SIGCOMM chair, I have been asked "what is your vision for SIGCOMM?", "can we make SIGCOMM more transparent?", and "will you write an article for CCR?". This article is an attempt to address all three of those questions.
A brief history of the internet
- Barry M. Leiner,
- Vinton G. Cerf,
- David D. Clark,
- Robert E. Kahn,
- Leonard Kleinrock,
- Daniel C. Lynch,
- Jon Postel,
- Larry G. Roberts,
- Stephen Wolff
This paper was first published online by the Internet Society in December 20031 and is being re-published in ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review because of its historic import. It was written at the urging of its primary editor, the late Barry ...
The workshop on active internet measurements (AIMS) report
Measuring the global Internet is a perpetually challenging task for technical, economic and policy reasons, which leaves scientists as well as policymakers navigating critical questions in their field with little if any empirical grounding. On February ...
New frontiers in internet network management
Network management represents an architectural gap in today's Internet [1]. Many problems with computer networks today, such as faults, misconfiguration, performance degradation, etc., are due to insufficient support for network management, and the ...
Computing for global development: is it computer science research?
CatePoverty and the associated su erings remain a global challenge, with over a billion people surviving on less than a dollar a day. Technology, applied appropriately, can help improve their lives. Despite some clear examples of technical research ...
Invigorating the future internet debate
While many initiatives have been discussing the future of the Internet, the EIFFEL1 think tank set out to push these discussions forward by assembling a community of researchers debating the potential thrusts towards the Future Internet. This article ...
Yet another access point
Increasing popularity in personal access points and travel routers has begun to rise with the advent of smaller and more battery conscious devices. This article introduces the YAAP (Yet Another Access Point), an open source software that enables ad-hoc ...