Network Performance links

network measurement and monitoring

CAIDA tools and such

network monitoring task force and Internet Traffic Archive and Claffy traces and Claffy papers Claffy dissertation

Internet2 weekly flow data and Abiliene NOC reports

SLAC's Internet loss statistics

NLANR debugging TCP sessions tcpdump/tcptrace/xplot

CAIDA Measurement Tool Taxonomy and Internet Performance Measurement and Analysis ipma and NLANR's measurement and operations analysis

OC3 mon flows and traffic report and coralreef

TAAD traffic analysis and diagnostics

PAM2003 passive and active measurement workshop and Comparing passive and active monitoring '03

High Precision Active Probing for Internet Measurement

CAIDA's Internet Measurement Infrastructure and network modeling and simulation

IEPM Internet End-to-end Performance Monitoring

SLAC's network monitoring tools

SLAC summary end-to-end tools like amp, surveyor, nimi, pinger, etc

Internet2 end-to-end performance initiative and white paper

SLAC comparison of FAST, HSTCP, scalable TCP, reno and more recent comparsion 10/03

netspec

network weather service NWS

Remos A Resource Query Interface for Network-Aware Applications

globus/gridftp Predicting the Performance of Wide Area Data Transfers

LBL's netlogger and enable and enable paper and instrumented tcpdump and 300 Mbs TCP problems

LBL's JAMM grid sensor monitoring

Advanced Networks ippm network monitoring and their support page uses GPS

RIPE test traffic using GPS

netramet or Oc3mon

Cisco's netflow

Cooperation in Internet Data Acquisition and Analysis

Realtime Traffic Flow Measurement

http traces and tcplib and internet traffic and papers

TCP performance --OS and applications

Enabling High Performance Data Transfers IP/TCP network tuning and some tuned tools ftp rsh wu-ftpd and ibm's tuning tips

psc pages on tcp performance and OS's, high speed nets

LBL's TCP tuning guide including autonegotiate (for Win* autonegotiate look at NIC device control setting (control panel/network or system), or NIC diagnostic (3com), or last: registry)

NCSA TCP window tuning

Tuning Solaris 2.x TCP parameters and Sun's TCP/IP Tunable Parameters

tuning Windows 2000 registry or here XP and Windows 2000 TCP/IP implementation

dslreports TCP test and tweak tcpdump/tcptrace/ping java applet

windows 2000 tcp tuning or here and NLANR windows tcptune utility

Solaris TCP/IP tuning

rfc 2525 Known TCP Implementation Problems 3/99

SLAC's log of network problems and solutions

When the CRC and TCP checksum disagree

high perf vbns ftp and plots or llnl's xftp window scale and ncftp

TCP-tunable ftp's

Ripeanu's performance evaluation for bulk data transfers

web100.org full bandwidth with auto-tuning and freebsd web100

web100 paper Web100: Extended TCP Instrumentation for Research, Education and Diagnosis '03

tcphealth linux mods to monitor tcp connections

auto tuning

ORNL's auto tuning zoo summary

LANL's Weigle's A Comparison of TCP Automatic Tuning Techniques for Distributed Computing 2002

NLANR automatic TCP window tuning

NLANR Automatically Tuned FTP Client packet pair probes

network application tuning using Enable

Heffner's senior thesis on autotuning with web100

globus globeperf

Feng's Dynamic adjustment of TCP window sizes auto tuning (DRS), another DRS paper and dynamic right sizing software, other Feng papers

Mathis Automatic TCP Buffer Tuning

A Network-Aware Distributed Storage Cache for Data Intensive Environments tcp buffer tuning

Linux 2.4 does window autotuning and traffic shaping based on CBQ

IBM/Linux TCPIP Network Stack Performance in Linux Kernel 2.4. and 2.5s

linux high speed networking patches paper

Net100 wad web100 auto tuning daemon, virtual MSS, AIMD tuning, buffer tuning

TCP performance -- protocol research

IETF IPPM Internet Protocol Performance Metrics

daedalus papers

Jacobson's '88 congestion avoidance and control

congestion control papers and TCP/IP research papers

IETF transport area working group

transport protocols '03

Caltech FAST fast AQM scalable TCP, vegas like, linux and ns paper TCP Congestion Control in Fast Long-Distance Networks 7/02

papers from Protocols for Fast Long-Distance Networks 2/03

Floyd's HighSpeed TCP for Large Congestion Windows IETF draft, may '02

Floyd Limited Slow-Start for TCP with Large Congestion Windows may '02 max_ssthresh and ns simulation results and ns scripts and problems with slow start

CERN's Scalable TCP '03 and Kelly's paper Scalable TCP

Internet Congestion Control '02

Paxon's papers

TCP Implementation WG Mail Archive

paper The performance of TCP/IP for networks with high bandwidth-delay products and random loss

TCP and ATM in Wide Area Networks and Tierney's Experiences with TCP/IP over an ATM OC12 WAN

Dynamics of TCP Traffic over ATM Networks

Feng's The Failure of TCP in High-Performance Computational Grids atm/esnet ns

rfc2914 congestion control principles, best practices 9/2000, fairness, avoiding congestion collapse

rfc1323 high speed options (window scaling/ timestamp) and rfc2001 TCP slow-start/congestion avoidance

rfc 2581 Reno, TCP congestion control

TCP New Reno rfc2582 partial ack's

rfc 2309 queue management and congestion control

rfc1045 vmtp

tcp congestion avoidance and lecture slides and modeling tcp throughput

Modeling TCP Throughput: A Simple Model and its Empirical Validation

tcp/ip research paper links

Sally Floyd and initial window and 2002 internet draft Increasing TCP's Initial Window

papers on TCP changes and and high speed TCP Modifying TCP's Congestion Control for High Speeds '02

End-to-End Congestion Control papers, AIMD, fairness

AIMD, Fairness and Fractal Scaling of TCP Traffic

General AIMD Congestion Control AIMD variations that maintain TCP friendliness (0.31,0.875) rather than TCP's (1,0.5)

Exploiting the Efficiency and Fairness Potential of AIMD-based Congestion Avoidance and Control AIMD tcp sack, ns '02

binary increase TCP '03

BicTCP in linux 2.6

Loss-Delay Based Adjustment Algorithm a TCP friendly adjustment scheme (multimedia apps)

Phil Dykstra's pages and his jumbo frames and Mathis big MTU slides and Mathis increase MTU page and MTU discovery server

stanislav shalunov tcp tuning over wan and virtual mss, internet2 bulk transfer speed, giga tcp and TCP Armonk paper

TCP friendly papers and PSC's TCP-friendly links

MIT's binomial congestion control nonlinear and Bansal's simulation scripts

On the effective evaluation of TCP

On Improving the Fairness of TCP Congestion Avoidance increment by k (IBK) and Floyd's constant-rate c*rtt*rtt/cwnd

Floyd's Increasing TCP's Initial Window links and Allman's An Evaluation of TCP with Larger Initial Windows

Simulation Studies of Increased Initial TCP Window Size and rfc 2414

rfc2861 idle flows, invalidation of congestion window (slow start or burst)

rfc 1191 path MTU discovery

TCP real recvr based, pkt waves/trains

Cisco link fragmentation

IPv6 jumbograms rfc 2675 and TCP and UDP over IPv6 jumbograms rfc2147

Fragmentation Considered Harmful

utiliziing fragmentation

broken mss and fragments

TCP Westwood, sender-sider modified TCP CA (estimate cwnd) and slides and a paper

Westwood for Linux 2.4 and 2.6

Italian TCP westwood site

Hoe's Improving the Start-up Behavior of a Congestion Control Scheme for TCP ssthresh estimation (new reno)

CERN's linux 2.4 mods for initial ssthresh and cwnd and AIMD tests

Keshav's A Control-theoretic Approach to Flow Control packet-pair probes

End-to-end packet delay and loss behavior in the internet

Internet2 Shulunov's gigabit TCP (GigE jumbo frames, zero copy)

Internet2 land speed record and Microsoft's land speed record 2000 2 streams, aggregate rate 957 Mbs, jumboframes single flow winner: 751 Mbs speedy.c

non TCP transport

MFTP or draft multicast UDP FTP or here

UDP RDP RFC 908, Reliable Data Protocol update RFC 1151

rfc 2960 sctp, Stream Control Transmission Protocol, reliable out of order delivery, multi-link, TCP-like, and IETF sigtran working group

sctp.org and many sctp links

IBM/linux sctp

linux sctp

RDMA os bypass

xcp Internet congestion control for high bandwidth-delay product envrionments, new protocol, router mods, avoids losses and fair 6/02

Floyd/Jain Quick-Start for TCP and IP initial rate requests, router mods, 6/02 or here in ns 2.26

scps space communication protocols

STP Scheduled Transfer Protocol and comparing STP to TCP and SGI's stp

wave and wait protocol wireless, packet trains

scalable reliable multicast SRM

End-System Optimizations for High-Speed TCP bigger MTU, zero copy

An Analysis of TCP Processing Overhead '89

rocks reliable UDP

Dunigan's atou almost TCP over UDP, virtual MSS

alpine user-level protocol stack (root access)

Allman has a TCP over UDP "cap" in development see Measuring End-to-End Bulk Transfer Capacity or slides

Indiana tsunami UDP bulk transfer and global terabit research network gtrn weather map

sabul rate-based UDP transport with TCP control channel sabul analysis '03

UDT son of SABUL, UDP only software

2005 TCP/UDP transports UDT 10gigE

survey of non-TCP protocols '03 or here

FOBS UDP

reliable blast UDP RBUDP

photonic data services and sabul, 2.8 gbs and software

reliable UDP rudp and ietf reliable udp

Floyd's dcp datagram control protocol

LBL's visapult bandwidth challenge SC** rate-based UDP, with dynamic rate adjustment (lossy) 16.8 gbs '02

lightsand fibre channel over SONET

reordering resilience

Blanton/Allman adjusting dup ACK threshold and On Making TCP More Robust to Packet Reordering ACM Computer Communication Review, 32(1), January 2002

TCP-PR timers rather than 3dup for reordering (multipath), persistant packet reordering '03

RR-TCP: A Reordering-Robust TCP with DSACK reordering

TCP-Eifel reordering resilience, timestamps or new bits (ns, freebsd, linux) also here and rfc2883 D-SACK

spurious timeouts F-RTO avoiding unnecessary retransmissions

H-TCP or here '03

rfc3042 TCP limited transmit on first dup ack's

On the Generation and Use of TCP Acknowledgments delayed ack effects '98 and rfc1122 delayed ACKs

Computing TCP's Retransmission Timer rfc 2988 '00

SACK selective acknowledgement and FACK

rfc2018 select ACK (SACK) and rfc2883 D-SACK

Forward Acknowledgment: Refining TCP Congestion Control FACK/SACK

A Conservative SACK-based Loss Recovery Algorithm for TCP

SACK implementations

Floyd's SACK papers including Issues of TCP with SACK

Simulation-based Comparisons of Tahoe, Reno, and SACK TCP and New Reno

UCLA TCP Selective Acknowledgement and Exprerimentatons with TCP Selective Acknowledgement

TCP Performance over Satellite Links

TCP Vegas

ORNLWAD-tuned Vegas and using TCP-over-UDP atou

linux 2.6 TCP Vegas

Evaluation of TCP Vegas '95 or here or tech report '94

TCP Vegas: New techniques for congestion detection and avoidance '94

Analysis and Comparison of TCP Reno and Vegas '99

TCP Vegas: End to End Congestion Avoidance on a Global Internet '95

Comparison of TCP Reno and TCP Vegas via Fluid Approximation '98 and more info

Feng On the Burstiness of the TCP Congestion-Control Mechanism in a Distributed Computing System '00 vegas vs reno

Rice's TCP-LP tcp low priority new congestion policy

Fairness and Stability of Congestion Control Mechanisms of TCP vegas/reno/tahoe

A Measurement of TCP over Long-Delay Network vegas, reno, satellite '98

Feng's A Case for TCP Vegas in High-Performance Computational Grid '01 and Enabling Compatibility Between TCP Reno and TCP Vegas '03 and On the Transient Behavior of TCP Vegas gamma estimation '02

Understanding TCP Vegas: A Duality Model '01

Bolliger TCP Vegas revisited '00, feature experiments

Understanding TCP Vegas: A Duality Model '01

Arizona's x kernel vegas implemenetation

linux vegas implementation gone? '99 but now here

USC vegas implementation sunos netbsd '94

Caltech FAST vegas-like, and stablilized Vegas '02

SLAC comparison of HS TCP, FAST TCP, Scalable TCP and results '03

TCP Extensions for Space Communications vegas

delay based congestion avoidance (DCA)

Is the Round-trip Time Correlated with the Number of Packets in flight '03

Delay-Based Congestion Avoidance for TCP '03

RTT-based congestion avoidance

Jain's Delay-based Approach for Congestion Avoidance CARD

Slow Start and Search (Tri-S) '91

Eliminating Periodic Packet Losses in the 4.3-Tahoe BSD TCP Congestion Control Algorithm TCP/DUAL

TCP Westwood uses dynamic modifications to congestion avoidance

explicit congestion notification ECN

ECN explicit congestion notification and rfc 2481 like DEC's old DECbit protocol

rfc 2884 ECN performance and Floyd's TCP and explicit congestion notification and recent (11/2000) draft The Addition of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IP

Promoting the Use of End-to-End Congestion Control with ns scripts, avoiding congestion collapse

Comparative study of RED, ECN and TCP Rate Control

Floyd's RED (Random Early Detection) Queue Management

blue q mgt eliminate packet loss in congested TCP/IP networks

Proactive Packet Dropping Methods for IP Gateways Derivative Random Drop DRD (used in NISTnet)

rate based TCP

Equation-Based Congestion Control for Unicast Applications papers, ns scripts, TCP Friendly Rate Control (TFRC)

A Comparison of Equation-Based and AIMD Congestion Control

PSC's TCP-friendly links

rate based pacing for TCP

Why TCP Is Broken in ATM WANs, and How Traffic Shaping Can Fix It

TCP-Friendly Unicast Rate-Based Flow Control and timer support for network processing

Improving Restart of Idle TCP Connections slow-start or burst after idle, rate-based pacing

Issues in TCP Slow-Start Restart After Idle burst detection/prevention

Rate Based Pacing for TCP slow-start restart

Understanding the Performance of TCP Pacing or A Simulation Study of Paced TCP

PSC's rate halving and papers TCP Rate-Halving with Bounding Parameters or rate halving draft

TCP Fast Start: A Technique for Speeding Up Web Transfers

TCP over satellite papers and SCPS space communications protocols

TCP Extensions for Space Communications vegas

The Effects of Asymmetry on TCP Performance or Understanding and Improving TCP Performance over Networks with Minimum Rate Guarantees

packeteer.com packet shaper and TCP rate control

Feng's Rate-Adjustment Algorithm for Aggregate TCP Congestion Control

rfc969 netblt, rate controlled bulk transfer and rfc998 and rfc1030 testing netblt, or reactive netblt

rfc908 RDB, reliable data protocol (sack-like alternative to TCP, '84)

parallel TCP flows

TCP Behavior of a Busy Internet Server: Analysis and Improvements parallel HTTP connections

SLAC's bulk transfer testing using parallel streams and SC 2000 results using iperf

SLAC bulk transfer measurements bbcp and CERN tests streams vs windows

SLAC's big windows vs multiple streams

Applied Techniques for High Bandwidth Data Transfers across Wide Area Networks SC 2000, GridFTP and DPSS

psockets network striping and PSockets: The Case for Application-level Network Striping

An Application-Level Solution to TCP's Satellite Inefficiencies XFTP

Hacker's End-to-End Performance Effects of Parallel TCP virtual MSS effect

Effects of Ensemble-TCP

HPSS's parallel TCP data transfers

Crowcroft Differentiated End-to-End Internet Services using a Weighted Proportional Fair Sharing TCP multcp, k-weighted boost to AIMD single stream to behave like k parallel streams

Allman's Multiple Data Connection FTP Extensions xftp, parallel flows

HSI hsi

gsiftp globus ftp with buffer knobs, gridftp parallel streams

SLAC's bbftp parallel streams ftp and bbcp

HPSS pftp and pftp documentation and Parallel FTP Performance in a High-Bandwidth, High-Latency WAN SC2000 and netperf

large-scale data movement tools pftp, gridftp, etc.

java parallel secure socket stream jparss

Window's parallel ftp flashget or dlexpert or netants

SC2001 bandwidth to the world SLAC

bulk data transfer tools bbftp, bbcp

Applied Techniques for High Bandwidth Data Transfers across Wide Area Networks

indirect TCP

I-TCP: Indirect TCP for Mobile Hosts

Improving TCP Performance over High-Bandwidth Geostationary Satellite Links tcp proxies

Modeling TCP Performance with Proxies tcp relays

MIT's RON Resilient Overlay Networks and ORNL's netlets application routing daemons

performance tools

Internet Metrics & Tools and CAIDA's measurement tools (ttcp, pathchar)

pathrate and pathload paper

pingplotter windows graphical ping/traceroute

Lai and Baker, Measuring Bandwidth pathchar, packet pairs, receiver only ROPP

What do packet dispersion techniques measure packet pair probes, pathrate

Paxson/Allman On Estimating End-to-End Network Path Properties bandwidth/rtt estimation '99 also see rfc2988

Claffy bandwidth estimation layer 2 device effects

Allman's cap tool for characterizing bulk transfer capacity (BTC, RFC 3148) see Measuring End-to-End Bulk Transfer Capacity or slides

rfc 2398 TCP testing tools

netperf page

tbit TCP Behavior Inference Tool

netpipe and ethereal

pchar

netest and pipechar and LBL's NCS Network Characterization Service, pipechar wrapper and sample daemons

nettest secure net monitoring

testrig TCP analyzer and debugging flowchart

Muss's ttcp and newer nuttcp and the ttcp story or IETF's benchmarking

NLANR's iperf parallel flows, UDP streaming

tcpdump

nlanr TCP trace info,like tcptrace and xplot and Wping and their tools

tdg tcpdump grapher for xgraph

tcpstat

treno and Diagnosing Internet Congestion with a Transport Layer Performance Tool

PSC's wping '94 and 2002 wping/mping version

PSC's web100 pathprobe

dunigan's TCP-like UDP protocol

microsofts bandwidth tester or here

Japanese DBS Distributed Benchmark System

your client's TCP settings or here

PC tools netpersec, my Java web100 applet bandwidth tester dslreports tweaks check your window/MTU size, and adjusting Win* TCP snd/rcv buffer sizes

network simulators

ucb's ns network simulator or vint and Advances in Network Simulation

parallel ns

ns TCP tour

dartmouth's ssf net simulator and java version ssfnet.org

real 5.0 and simulator links

javasim

opnet

Arizona's x kernel

stcp atm/tcp simulator

network emulators

NIST's emulator nistnet and rfc 2884 uses nistnet to evaluate ECN and another nistnet linux note

Duke's modelnet

Freebsd dummynet including multipath, loss, delays, bandwidth example FAST's dummynet

USC hitbox

UK's delay line

Mitre's spanner network delay/error (space studies) scps

NASA A Measurement of TCP over Long-Delay Network included emulation

emulation used in Evaluation of TCP Vegas

emulation with ns

adtech emulators

alpine user-level protocol stack (root access)

traffic generators

LANforge traffic generator

network accelerators

qlogic offload engines tcp offload

adaptec tcp offload engine toe

outboard tcp lanl unc

infiniband tcp offload

adaptec iSCSI

other

optiputer

The Design philosophgy of the DARPA Internet protocols '88

Latency and the Quest for Interactivity

ESnet and current stats and ESnet backbone