Subject: Re: TCP Pacing

From: Daniele Lacamera <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:46:00 +0200

As Ian requested, some of the papers published about Pacing.

* Main reference:
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Amit Aggarwal, Stefan Savage, and Thomas Anderson.   
"Understanding the Performance of TCP Pacing". 
Proc. of the IEEE INFOCOM 2000 Conference on Computer Communications, 
March 2000, pages 1157 - 1165.

* IETF RFC:
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H. Balakrishnan, V. N. Padmanabhan, G. Fairhurst, M.Sooriyabandara, 
"TCP Performance Implications of Network Path Asymmetry",
IETF RFC 3449, December 2002.

* Other works:
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C. Caini, R. Firrincieli, 
"Packet spreading techniques to avoid bursty traffic in satellite TCP 
connections". 
In. Proceedings of IEEE VTC Spring ’04

Q.Ye, M.H. MacGregor, 
"Pacing to Improve SACK TCP Resilience", 
2005 Spring Simulation Multiconference, DASD, pp. 39-45, 2005

Young-Soo Choi; Kong-Won Lee; Tae-Man Han; You-Ze Cho;
"High-speed TCP protocols with pacing for fairness and TCP friendliness"
TENCON 2004. 2004 IEEE Region 10 Conference
Volume C,  21-24 Nov. 2004 Page(s):13 - 16 Vol. 3 

Razdan, A.; Nandan, A.; Wang, R.; Sanadidi, M.Y.; Gerla, M.;
"Enhancing TCP performance in networks with small buffers"
Computer Communications and Networks, 2002. Proceedings. Eleventh 
International Conference on
14-16 Oct. 2002 Page(s):39 - 44 

Moonsoo Kang; Jeonghoon Mo;
"On the Pacing Technique for High Speed TCP Over Optical Burst Switching 
Networks"
Advanced Communication Technology, 2006. ICACT 2006. The 8th 
International Conference
Volume 2, 20-22 Feb. 2006 Page(s):1421 - 1424 

Mark Allman, Ethan Blanton
"Notes on burst mitigation for transport protocols", 
April 2005 ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, Volume 35 Issue 2 
Publisher: ACM Press

J. Kulik, R. Coulter, D. Rockwell, and C. Partridge, 
"A Simulation Study of Paced TCP", 
BBN Technical Memorandum No. 1218, 1999. 

* Congestion Control proposals that include Pacing:
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G. Marfia, C. Palazzi, G. Pau, M. Gerla, M. Sanadidi and M. Roccetti, 
"TCP Libra: Balancing Flows over Heterogeneous
Propagation Scenarios", submitted for publication in Proceedings of ACM 
SIGMETRICS/Performance 2006. 

Carlo Caini and Rosario Firrincieli, 
"TCP Hybla: a TCP enhancement for heterogeneous networks", 
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING 2004; 
22:547–566 

D. X. Wei, C. Jin, S. H. Low and S. Hegde.
"FAST TCP: motivation, architecture, algorithms", 
performance IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, to appear in 2007 

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Daniele Lacamera
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