Next GENeration transport protocol research
program (NGEN)
Introduction
NGEN (pronounced "engine") is an umbrella research program encompassing
a number of
collaborative projects between CAIA, industry and other research
institutions. NGEN's broad goal is the design, analysis and prototyping
of next generation transport protocols for the Internet. In particular
we are interested in the creation of a new TCP that can operate
effectively across paths having wide dynamic range of latency, loss and
available bandwidth.
TCP is constantly being refined and re-designed, usually for specific
and well defined target problems (such as bulk data transfer over long,
high bandwidth and relatively loss free links). NGEN will eventually be
home to a number of projects, including ones that will:
- Create new theoretical
understandings of leading next generation TCP algorithms
- Experimentally evaluate
performance characteristics under heterogeneous scenarios
- Create and publish
interoperable open-source implementations of a candidate next
generation TCP algorithm
- Define a suite of generic
test-cases for comparing and contrasting the suitability of different
next generation TCP algorithms
NGEN projects will be undertaken collaboratively
with researchers from other institutions and with direct industry
support.
Program Leader
Grenville
Armitage
Current program Members
James
Healy
Lawrence
Stewart
(Alumni: Irena Atov, David Kennedy, Qiang Fu)
