Kevin Fall's Home Page

phone: +1 (510) 486-6357
Fax: +1 (510) 486-6363
Email: kfall@ee.lbl.gov

Kevin Fall is a Staff Computer Scientist in the Information and Computing Sciences Division at LBNL . He joined the Network Research Group in September, 1995.

In Spring '96 he taught the graduate computer networking class, CS268, in the UC Berkeley Computer Science Division with Mike Luby.

Kevin received a BA in Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 1988. While an undergraduate at Berkeley, he worked on several projects including VorTeX, the DASH operating system, and later for the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG), the developers of Berkeley UNIX. He later went to Project Athena at MIT during the summer of 1989 before beginning graduate school at UCSD. He completed an MS degree in computer science at UCSD in 1991, followed by the PhD in 1994. His dissertation was in the general area of Operating Systems, with a focus on designing I/O subsystems for I/O intensive applications. His advisor was Professor Joseph Pasquale. Kevin has been a postdoctoral scholar for both UCSD and MIT. He has also taught a number of classes for the UCSD and UCSC Extension programs, where he teaches classes in TCP/IP Networking.

Current and Recent Activities

• The VINT Project
  (a project in network simulation, in collaboration with Xerox PARC, USC/ISI, UC Berkeley)

• The (new) UCB/LBNL Network Simulator (ns-2)

• The (old) LBNL Network Simulator (ns)

Slides from Talks

• Promoting End-to-End Congestion Control in the Internet
  slides from my presentation to the UC Berkeley Multimedia Seminar,
  Apr 1988 [PowerPoint], [PDF]
• Simulating the Internet: challenges and methods slides from my presentation to the IX Computer Science Symposium, Mayab University, Yucatan, Mexico, Apr 1998 [PowerPoint]
• The New NS-2 Emulation Facility, slides from my presentation to the IETF TCP-IMPL Working Group, Apr 1998 [PowerPoint], [PDF],
• NS2 (and possible uses for mobile routing simulation), slides from my presentation to the IETF MANET Working Group, Dec 1997 [PowerPoint]
• Dynamic Load Adaptation in Internet Applications, slides from my DIMACS presentation, Nov 1996 [html]

Academic Work and Publications

• Thesis and Representative Publications
  • Floyd, S., and Fall, K., Router Mechanisms to Support End-to-End Congestion Control,
    This is a set of papers created from an earlier single paper, Feb 1997
  • Fall, K., and Floyd, S., Simulation-based Comparisons of Tahoe, Reno, and SACK TCP,
    Computer Communications Review, 26(3), July 1996
  • Pasquale, J. et al., High-Performance I/O and Networking Software in Sequoia 2000,
    Digital Technical Journal, 7(3), Dec 1995 (click here for more info)
  • Fall, K., A Peer-to-Peer I/O System in Support of I/O Intensive Workloads,
    UCSD PhD Thesis, Dec 1994 (compressed Postscript).
    You can also get a copy of the sources used in the related papers (gzip'd tar file).
  • Fall, K., and McCanne, S., and Pasquale, J., Workstation Video Playback Performance with Competitive Process Load, NOSSDAV 1995 Short Paper
  • Chinoy, B., and Fall, K., TCP/IP and HIPPI Performance in the CASA Gigabit Testbed
    Proc Usenix High-Speed Networking, 1994
  • Fall, K., and Pasquale, J., Improving Continuous-Media Playback Performance with In-Kernel Data Paths,
    IEEE Intl Conf on Multimedia Comput Sys, 1994
  • Fall, K., and Pasquale, J., Exploiting In-Kernel Data Paths to Improve I/O Throughput and CPU Availability,
    Proc. Usenix Winter 1993
  • Mercurio, P., et. al., The Distributed Laboratory: An Interactive Visualization Environment for Electron Microscopy and 3D Imaging, Communications of the ACM, 35(6), June 1992

• Previous Work and Collaborations
  • UCSD Computer Systems Lab
  • SDSC Applied Network Research Group
  • Sequoia 2000
  • MIT/LCS Telemedia, Networks and Systems

• Airlines
• Network Simulation Links
• CS 268 Home Page