École Normale Supérieure

Workshop on the modeling of TCP

December 7-8, 1998

Introduction

The role of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is to ensure an end-to-end control of the data transmission over the Internet. Since most of today's Internet traffic is generated by data transfer applications (such as Web sessions) using TCP, it is a major challenge to understand its dynamics and evaluate its performance, in order to improve the efficiency of the utilization of the network resources. This workshop aims at presenting and discussing some of the most recent results on the mathematical modeling of TCP, as well as some connected issues on pricing and quality of service in the Internet.

See the program of the workshop.

The workshop is sponsored by École Normale Supérieure and INRIA.

List of Lectures

The papers/slides are available!

Agrawal, R.
University of Wisconsin, USA. Stochastic and Adaptive Service Curves
[Paper]

Altman, E.
INRIA, France. TCP over Satellite Links
[Abstract 1][Paper 1][Abstract 2][Paper 2][Slides]

Baccelli, F.
ENS, France. Effect of Cross Traffic on the Performance of TCP
[Abstract][Paper]

Bonald, T.
INRIA, France. Comparison of TCP Reno and TCP Vegas via Fluid Approximation
[Abstract][Paper][Slides]

Chang, C.S.
National Tsing Hua University,
Taiwan. An Overview of the Filtering Theory for Deterministic Performance Guarantees in Communication Networks
[Paper]

Kelly, F.P.
University of Cambridge, UK. Resource Pricing and the Evolution of Congestion Control
[Slides] See also Franck Kelly's page on Proportional Fairness

Key, P.
Microsoft Cambridge, UK. Fixed-point Models and Congestion Pricing for TCP and Related Schemes
[Slides]

Lakshman, T.V.
Bell Laboratories, USA. (1) An Overview on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of TCP
[Paper 1][Paper 2][Paper 3][Paper 4]
(2) Quality of Service in the Internet
[Paper 1][Paper 2]

Leboudec, J-Y.
EPFL, CH. A Note on the Fairness of the Additive Increase, Multiplicative Decrease Algorithm
[Paper]

Massoulié, L.
France Télécom, F. Bandwidth Sharing for Elastic Traffic
[Paper 1][Paper 2]

Roberts, J.W.
France Télécom, F. Quality of Service, Pricing and Admission Control for Elastic Flows
[Paper 1]Paper 2]

Contact

For more information on this workshop, you can contact the organizers

F. Baccelli
Email: Francois.Baccelli@ens.fr T. Bonald
Email: Thomas.Bonald@inria.fr

[Version française]

Agrawal, R. University of Wisconsin, USA.		Stochastic and Adaptive Service Curves [Paper]
Altman, E. INRIA, France.		TCP over Satellite Links [Abstract 1][Paper 1][Abstract 2][Paper 2][Slides]
Baccelli, F. ENS, France.		Effect of Cross Traffic on the Performance of TCP [Abstract][Paper]
Bonald, T. INRIA, France.		Comparison of TCP Reno and TCP Vegas via Fluid Approximation [Abstract][Paper][Slides]
Chang, C.S. National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.		An Overview of the Filtering Theory for Deterministic Performance Guarantees in Communication Networks [Paper]
Kelly, F.P. University of Cambridge, UK.		Resource Pricing and the Evolution of Congestion Control [Slides] See also Franck Kelly's page on Proportional Fairness
Key, P. Microsoft Cambridge, UK.		Fixed-point Models and Congestion Pricing for TCP and Related Schemes [Slides]
Lakshman, T.V. Bell Laboratories, USA.		(1) An Overview on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of TCP [Paper 1][Paper 2][Paper 3][Paper 4] (2) Quality of Service in the Internet [Paper 1][Paper 2]
Leboudec, J-Y. EPFL, CH.		A Note on the Fairness of the Additive Increase, Multiplicative Decrease Algorithm [Paper]
Massoulié, L. France Télécom, F.		Bandwidth Sharing for Elastic Traffic [Paper 1][Paper 2]
Roberts, J.W. France Télécom, F.		Quality of Service, Pricing and Admission Control for Elastic Flows [Paper 1]Paper 2]