CS Colloquium on Oct. 15 at 11am

Title: FAST TCP

Speaker: Steven Low
         http://netlab.caltech.edu/~slow

Date: October 15 (Wednesday)
Time: 11am
Place: MCS 135

Abstract:

We describe FAST TCP, a new TCP congestion control algorithm for high-speed
long-latency networks, from design to implementation. We highlight the
approach taken by FAST TCP to address the difficulties at large window and
summarize our algorithms at both the flow and packet level. We present
experimental results comparing our first Linux prototype with TCP Reno,
HSTCP, and STCP in terms of throughput, fairness, responsiveness, and
stability. These preliminary results suggest that FAST TCP can indeed
rapidly stabilize a high-speed long-latency network into a steady,
efficient and fair operating point, in a dynamic sharing environment.

[Joint work with Cheng Jin and David Wei, Caltech]

Biography of the Speaker:

Steven Low is Associate Professor of Computer Science at California
Institute of Technology. His research is currently directed toward the
control and optimization of communication networks and protocols. He has
developed a duality model of network congestion control that helps
understand the current internet congestion control algorithms, expose their
deficiencies, and design more efficient ones. He is also interested in
digital watermarking and privacy protection. He was a co-recipient of the
IEEE William R. Bennett Prize Paper Award in 1997 and the 1996 R&D 100
Award. He is on the editorial boards of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on
Networking and the Computer Networks Journal, and has been a guest editor
of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. Prior to joining
Caltech, Steven Low was with AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, from 1992
to 1996 and with the University of Melbourne, Australia, from 1996 to
2000. Steven Low obtained his B.Sc.  from Cornell and his M.Sc. And
Ph.D. from Univeristy of of California, Berkeley.

Host: Azer Bestarovs (http://www.cs.bu.edu/~best)