LBNL's Network Research Group

Past and Present Group Staff

• Sally Floyd (retired from ICIR)
• Craig Leres
• Vern Paxson (ICSI, UCB and Corelight)
• Van Jacobson (at PARC)
• Kevin Fall
• Steven McCanne (now at Riverbed)

Network Research Group documents include:

• Papers
• Talks
• Email
• RFCs and Internet Drafts with NRG authors

Software Packages via anonymous ftp:

• vat, the audio conferencing tool;
• vic, the video conferencing tool;
• wb, the shared whiteboard; and
• sd, the session announcement tool.

• tcpdump, the protocol packet capture and dumper program;
• libpcap, the Packet Capture library;
• arpwatch, the ethernet monitor program; for keeping track of ethernet/ip address pairings,
• traceroute for printing the route packets take to a network host, and
• pathchar for inferring the characteristics of Internet paths.

Other software packages include

• bpf, the Berkeley Packet Filter;
• cslip, the compressed serial line IP package;
• and others available via anonymous ftp from our anonymous ftp server.

Research projects with their own web pages include:

• CBQ (Class-Based Queueing, including link-sharing);
• ECN (Explicit Congestion Notification);
• RED gateways (Random Early Detection Gateways);
• SRM (Scalable Reliable Multicast);
• the VINT project, based on the UCB/LBNL Network Simulator ns ( ns-1, ns-2); and
• Adaptive Web Caching ;

Past research projects with their own web pages:

• EPD (Early Packet Discard, a packet discard strategy for ATM switches);
• SACK TCP (Selective Acknowledgements).
• Measurement-based Admissions Control Procedures for Controlled-Load traffic.

Other:

• We maintain the Internet Traffic Archive, which includes some of our traces of network traffic.

• The Network Research Group is a participant in the Collaborative Advanced Internet Research Network (CAIRN).

• The Network Research Group Clip File, in progress, for our funding agencies...

Copyright notice included on the source files for most of our software.

See the file COPYRIGHTS for copyright information about documents.