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Title : TCP and Future Applications and Networks
Date : April 14, 2006. (2:00 pm) Tea starts half an hour before each seminar
Location: ITEB 336
Speaker : Don Towsley
Abstract:
In this talk we consider the evolution of TCP as application bandwidth requirements increase and network bandwidths increase. We begin by first reviewing fluid models of TCP. This includes a review of fluid models of TCP that are the crucial for understanding its current behavior and for considering any future development of TCP. These are useful because of their potential to evaluate both the transient and equilibrium behavior of TCP, and to evaluate the stability of different variants of TCP. We then focus on the future evolution of TCP. We first present evolutionary models of application bandwidth requirements, network bandwidth capabilities, and router memory capabilities. We then explore the implications of these models and propose a new variation of TCP that should be able to handle evolving applications and technologies for years to come.
This work is in collaboration with Y. Gu, k. Hollot, F. Kelly, D. Wischik.
Bio:
Don Towsley holds a B.A. in Physics (1971) and a Ph.D. in Computer Science (1975) from University of Texas. From 1976 to 1985 he was a member of the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is currently a Distinguished Professor at the University of Massachusetts in the Department of Computer Science. He has held visiting positions at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY; Laboratoire MASI, Paris, France; INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France; AT&T Labs - Research, Florham Park, NJ; and Microsoft Research Lab, Cambridge, UK. His research interests include networks and performance evaluation.
He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and on the editorial boards of Journal of the ACM, and IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications and has previously served on numerous other editorial boards. He was Program Co-chair of the joint ACM SIGMETRICS and PERFORMANCE '92 conference and the Performance 2002 conference. He is a member of ACM and ORSA, and Chair of IFIP Working Group 7.3 on Performance Modeling and Analysis.
He has received the 1998 IEEE Communications Society William Bennett
Best Paper Award and numerous best conference/workshop paper awards.
Last, he has been elected Fellow of both the ACM and IEEE.
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