LBL Network Research Group Papers

1998

Floyd, S., et al., Internet Research: Comments on Formulating the Problem (postscript, pdf). Unpublished manuscript in progress, January 1998.

Floyd, S., and Fall, K., Promoting the Use of End-to-End Congestion Control in the Internet. Under submission, February 1998. This is a revised version of sections of Router Mechanisms to Support End-to-End Congestion Control, Technical report, February 1997.

Paxson, V., Bro: A System for Detecting Network Intruders in Real-Time. Proceedings of the 7th USENIX Security Symposium, San Antonio, TX, January 1998. This version of the paper differs from that in the printed Proceedings in that an error in the performance analysis, which overstated the load on the FDDI ring by a factor of two, has been corrected.

Paxson, V., On Calibrating Measurements of Packet Transit Times. Proceedings of SIGMETRICS '98, June 1998.

Paxson, V., Mahdavi, J., Adams, A., and Mathis, M, An Architecture for Large-Scale Internet Measurement. IEEE Communications, Vol.36, No.8, pp 48-54, August 1998.

Sharma, P., Estrin, D., Floyd, S., and Zhang, L., Scalable Session Messages in SRM, Technical report, February 1998.

Varadhan, K., Estrin, D., and Floyd, S., Impact of Network Dynamics on End-to-End Protocols: Case Studies in TCP and Reliable Multicast, Tech report USC-CS-TR 98-672, April 1998. An abbreviated version of the paper will appear in Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, July 1998.

Willinger, W., and Paxson, V., Where Mathematics meets the Internet, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Vol.45, No.8, pp. 961-970, August 1998.

Willinger, W., Paxson, V., and Taqqu, M.S., Self-similarity and Heavy Tails: Structural Modeling of Network Traffic. In A Practical Guide to Heavy Tails: Statistical Techniques and Applications, Adler, R., Feldman, R., and Taqqu, M.S., editors, Birkhauser, 1998.

1997

Floyd, S., Allman, M., and Partridge, C., Increasing TCP's Initial Window, submitted as an Internet Draft, July 30 1997. Copy of submission.

Floyd, S., Jacobson, V., Liu, C., McCanne, S., and Zhang, L., A Reliable Multicast Framework for Light-weight Sessions and Application Level Framing, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, December 1997, Volume 5, Number 6, pp. 784-803. An earlier version of this paper appeared in ACM SIGCOMM 95, August 1995, pp. 342-356.

Paxson, V., End-to-End Routing Behavior in the Internet. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol.5, No.5, pp. 601-615, October 1997. An earlier version appeared in Proc. ACM SIGCOMM '96, August 1996, Stanford, CA.

Paxson, V., End-to-End Internet Packet Dynamics, ACM SIGCOMM '97, September 1997, Cannes, France.

Paxson, V., Automated Packet Trace Analysis of TCP Implementations, ACM SIGCOMM '97, September 1997, Cannes, France.

Paxson, V., Measurements and Analysis of End-to-End Internet Dynamics, (1.8 MB gzip compressed, ~400 pages), Ph.D. dissertation, 1997. README.

Paxson, V., Fast, Approximate Synthesis of Fractional Gaussian Noise for Generating Self-Similar Network Traffic . Computer Communications Review, V. 27 N. 5, October 1997, pp. 5-18. This paper is a minor revision of Fast Approximation of Self-Similar Network Traffic , an April 1995 technical report. Abstract.

Paxson, V., and Floyd, S., Why We Don't Know How To Simulate The Internet, Proceedings of the 1997 Winter Simulation Conference, December 1997.

Sharma, P., Estrin, D., Floyd, S., and Jacobson, V., Scalable Timers for Soft State Protocols , IEEE INFOCOM 1997, April 1997. An extended version appears as USC CS-TR96-640.

Willinger, W., and Paxson, V., Discussion of ``Heavy Tail Modeling and Teletraffic Data'' by S.R. Resnick, Annals of Statistics, Vol.25, No.5, pp. 1805-1869, 1997. Abstract of Prof. Resnick's paper, On-line version of Prof. Resnick's paper.

1996

Deering, S., Estrin, D., Farinacci, D., Jacobson, V., Lui, C., and Wei, L., The PIM Architecture for Wide-Area Multicast Routing. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol.4, No.2, April 1996. An earlier version, An Architecture for Wide-Area Multicast Routing, appeared in SIGCOMM 1994, August 1994, pp. 126-135.

Fall, K., and Floyd, S. Simulation-based Comparisons of Tahoe, Reno, and SACK TCP (compressed postscript, pdf). Computer Communications Review, V. 26 N. 3, July 1996, pp. 5-21. Abstract.

Floyd, S., Comments on Measurement-based Admissions Control for Controlled-Load Services. July 1996. To be submitted to Computer Communications Review.

Floyd, S., Ns Simulator Tests for Random Early Detection (RED) Gateways, Technical report, October 1996.

McCanne, S., Jacobson, V., and Vetterli, M. Receiver-driven Layered Multicast. ACM SIGCOMM '96, August 1996, Stanford, CA.

Paxson, V., Towards a Framework for Defining Internet Performance Metrics. LBNL-38952, June 20, 1996. An earlier version of this paper appeared in Proc. INET '96.

1995

Amir, E., McCanne, S., and Zhang, H., An Application-level Video Gateway. ACM Multimedia '95, November 1995, San Francisco, CA.

Floyd, S., and Jacobson, V., Link-sharing and Resource Management Models for Packet Networks (compressed postscript, pdf). IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 3 No. 4, pp. 365-386, August 1995. Abstract.

McCanne, S., and Jacobson, V., vic: A Flexible Framework Framework for Packet Video. ACM Multimedia '95, November 1995, San Francisco, CA, pp. 511-522. Best student paper award.

McCanne, S., and Vetterli, M., Joint Source/Channel Coding for Multicast Packet Video. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing. October, 1995. Washington, DC.

Paxson, V, and Floyd, S., Wide-Area Traffic: The Failure of Poisson Modeling. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 3 No. 3, pp. 226-244, June 1995. Abstract. An earlier version of this paper appeared in SIGCOMM 94, pp. 257-268, August 1994.

Romanow, A., and Floyd, S., Dynamics of TCP Traffic over ATM Networks (compressed postscript, pdf). IEEE JSAC, V. 13 N. 4, May 1995, p. 633-641. Abstract. An earlier version appeared in SIGCOMM '94, August 1994, pp. 79-88.

1994

Floyd, S., TCP and Explicit Congestion Notification (compressed postscript, pdf). ACM Computer Communication Review, V. 24 N. 5, October 1994, p. 10-23. [This issue of CCR incorrectly has "1995" on the cover instead of "1994".] Abstract.

Floyd, S., and Jacobson, V., The Synchronization of Periodic Routing Messages (compressed postscript, pdf). IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, V.2 N.2, p. 122-136, April 1994. Abstract.

Jacobson, V., Multimedia conferencing on the Internet. In SIGCOMM Symposium on Communications Architectures and Protocols, (London, England), Aug. 1994. Tutorial slides.

Paxson, V., Empirically-Derived Analytic Models of Wide-Area TCP Connections. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 2 No. 4, August 1994. Abstract.

Paxson, V., Growth Trends in Wide-Area TCP Connections. IEEE Network, Vol. 8 No. 4, pp. 8-17, July 1994. Abstract.

1993

Floyd, S., and Jacobson, V. Random Early Detection gateways for Congestion Avoidance. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, V.1 N.4, August 1993, p. 397-413. Abstract.

McCanne, S., and Jacobson, V., The BSD Packet Filter: A New Architecture for User-level Packet Capture. Proceedings of the 1993 Winter USENIX Technical Conference (San Diego, CA, Jan. 1993), USENIX.

McCanne, S., and Torek, C., A Randomized Sampling Clock for CPU Utilization Estimation and Code Profiling. Proceedings of the 1993 Winter USENIX Technical Conference (San Diego, CA, Jan. 1993), USENIX.

Paxson, V., Glish: A Software Bus for High-Level Control. Proceedings of the 1993 International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems (Berlin, Germany, Oct. 1993). Abstract.

Paxson, V., and Saltmarsh, C., Glish: A User-Level Software Bus for Loosely-Coupled Distributed Systems. Proceedings of the 1993 Winter USENIX Technical Conference (San Diego, CA, Jan. 1993), USENIX. Abstract.

1992

Floyd, S., and Jacobson, V., On Traffic Phase Effects in Packet-Switched Gateways (compressed postscript, pdf). Internetworking: Research and Experience, V.3 N.3, September 1992, p.115-156. Abstract. (An earlier version of this paper appeared in Computer Communication Review, V.21 N.2, April 1991.)

1991

Floyd, S., Connections with Multiple Congested Gateways in Packet-Switched Networks Part 1: One-way Traffic (compressed postscript, pdf). Computer Communications Review, Vol.21, No.5, October 1991, p. 30-47. Abstract.

Floyd, S., Connections with Multiple Congested Gateways in Packet-Switched Networks Part 2: Two-way Traffic. Unpublished draft, 1991. Abstract.

1990

Paxson, V., A Survey of Support for Implementing Debuggers. CS 262 class project, University of California, Berkeley, October, 1990. Abstract.

1989

Clark, D., Jacobson, V., Romkey, J., and Salwen, M., An analysis of TCP processing overhead. IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 27, pp. 23--29, June 1989.

1988

Jacobson, V., Congestion Avoidance and Control (compressed postscript, pdf). Proceedings of SIGCOMM '88 (Palo Alto, CA, Aug. 1988) (The pointers are to a slightly-revised 1992 version of the 1988 paper.)

LBL Network Research Group Notes

1995

Floyd, S., Simulator Tests. July 1995. Abstract.

1994

Floyd, S., TCP and Successive Fast Retransmits. Technical report, October 1994. Abstract.

1993

Steven McCanne, An Echo Canceler for Workstation Audio. EE225A Term Project, U.C. Berkeley. May 1993.

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