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Articles, Papers and Presentations

Journal Articles

• G. Armitage, L. Stewart, M. Welzl, J. Healy, "An independent H-TCP implementation under FreeBSD 7.0 - description and observed behaviour", ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, Volume 38 Issue 3, July 2008

Conference Articles

• D. A. Hayes and G. Armitage, "Revisiting TCP Congestion Control using Delay Gradients," in IFIP Networking 2011, Valencia, Spain, 9-13 May 2011
(preprint)
• L.Stewart, D. Hayes, G. Armitage, M. Welzl and A. Petlund, "Multimedia-unfriendly TCP Congestion Control and Home Gateway Queue Management," in ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys 2011), San Jose, California, 23-25 February 2011
• D. A. Hayes and G. Armitage, "Improved coexistence and loss tolerance for delay based TCP congestion control," in 35th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2010), Denver, Colorado, USA, 11-14 October 2010
• L. Stewart, G. Armitage, and A. Huebner, "Collateral Damage: The Impact of Optimised TCP Variants On Real-time Traffic Latency in Consumer Broadband Environments", IFIP/TC6 NETWORKING 2009. Aachen, Germany, 11-15 May 2009

Related CAIA Technical Reports

• Grenville Armitage, "A rough comparison of NewReno, CUBIC, Vegas and 'CAIA Delay Gradient' TCP (v0.1)," CAIA Technical report 110729A, 29 July 2011
• David Hayes, Lawrence Stewart and Grenville Armitage, "Evaluating the FreeBSD 9.x Modular Congestion Control Framework's Performance Impact," CAIA Technical report 110228A, 28 February 2011 (extended work supported by FreeBSD Foundation)
• David Hayes, "Timing enhancements to the FreeBSD kernel to support delay and rate based TCP mechanisms", CAIA Technical report 100219A, 19 February 2010.
• A. Huebner, "Capping of cwnd growth in FreeBSD's NewReno over high BDP paths", CAIA Technical Report 080829A, August 2008
• A. Huebner, "Experimental Evaluation of Latency Induced in Real-Time Traffic by TCP Congestion Control Algorithms", CAIA Technical Report 080818A, August 2008
• J.Healy, L.Stewart, "Light-Weight Modular TCP Congestion Control for FreeBSD 7", CAIA Technical Report 071218A, December 2007
• L. Stewart, G. Armitage, J. Healy, "Characterising the Behaviour and Performance of SIFTR v1.1.0", CAIA Technical Report 070824A, August 2007
• J.Healy, L.Stewart, "Tuning and Testing the FreeBSD 6 TCP Stack", CAIA Technical Report 070717B, July 2007
• J.Healy, L.Stewart, "An Introduction to FreeBSD 6 Kernel Hacking", CAIA Technical Report 070622A, June 2007

Presentations

• L. Stewart, "Up close and personal with TCP in FreeBSD: A look at the new modular TCP congestion control framework and tools for TCP forensics", BSDCan 2008 Conference
• L. Stewart, "TCP Forensics: Identifying and debugging issues with TCP in FreeBSD", May 2008 FreeBSD Developer Summit

Related Work (very incomplete)

• Li, Y.T, Leith,D., Shorten,R. "Experimental Evaluation of TCP Protocols for High-Speed Networks", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol 15, No. 5, October 2007
• S. Floyd, "Metrics for the Evaluation of Congestion Control Mechanisms", (Internet Draft), draft-irtf-tmrg-metrics-09.txt, April 2007
• A. Jones, "Fun with Dummynet: Maintaining High Throughput in Large Bandwidth Delay Product Networks", December 2006
• S. Floyd, "Tools for the Evaluation of Simulation and Testbed Scenarios", (Internet Draft), draft-irtf-tmrg-tools-03.txt, December 2006
• D.J.Leith, R.N.Shorten, Y.Li, "H-TCP: A Framework for congestion control in high speed and long-distance networks", Hamilton Institute Technical Report, August 2005.
• D. Wei, P. Cao, and S. Low, "Time for a TCP Benchmark Suite?", Technical Report, August 2005