TCP for Long, High-Bandwidth Paths

• HighSpeed TCP from Sally Floyd.

• Scalable TCP from Tom Kelly.

• FAST (Fast AQM Scalable TCP) Protocols for Ultrascale Networks, from CalTech.

• Binary Increase Control (Bic) TCP, Lisong Xu, Khaled Harfoush, and Injong Rhee.
  "Bic-TCP is a new protocol that ensures a linear RTT fairness."

• CUBIC-TCP:
  "BIC's growth function can still be too aggressive for TCP... In the new release of BIC, we introduce a new window growth function - a cubic function."
  The CUBIC web site includes implementations of BIC-TCP, CUBIC-TCP, and STCP for ns-2.

• Layered TCP from Sumitha Bhandarkar et al.
  "Improving TCP Performance in High Bandwidth High RTT Links Using Layered Congestion Control", PFLDNet 2005, February 2005.
  "This scheme can be thought of as an emulation of multiple flows at the transport level, with the key contribution that the number of virtual flows adapt to the dynamic network conditions."

• H-TCP. Shorten, R.N. and Leith, D.J., H-TCP: TCP for high-speed and long-distance networks. Proc. PFLDnet, Argonne, 2004.
  "Our objective here is to develop a systematic framework for modifying the basic TCP algorithm that renders it suitable in a variety of network types."

• XCP from Dina Katabi et al.

• Web100.
  "The Web100 project will provide the software and tools necessary for end-hosts to automatically and transparently achieve high bandwidth data rates (100 Mbps) over the high performance research networks."

• Warren Matthews and Les Cottrell, Achieving High Data Throughput in Research Networks, COMPUTING IN HIGH ENERGY AND NUCLEAR PHYSICS, Hosted By IHEP, Beijing, China September 3 - 7, 2001.
  "Detailed understanding of performance issues and the requirements for reliable high throughput transfers is critical."

• Approaches with parallel TCP connections: PSockets, GridFTP.

• Single-stream speed records: The IPv6 Internet2 Land Speed Record.

Surveys and Such

• Evaluations of High-Speed TCP Variants from NCSU's Networking Research Lab:
  • S. Ha, L. Le, I. Rhee and L. Xu, "Impact of Background Traffic on Performance of High-speed TCP Variant Protocols", Computer Networks, V.15 N.4, Aug. 2007.
  • H. Cai, D. Eun, S. Ha, I. Rhee and L. Xu, "Stochastic Ordering for Internet Congestion Control", PFLDnet, 2007.
  • S. Ha, Y. Kim, L. Le, I. Rhee and L. Xu, "A Step toward Realistic Performance Evaluation of High-Speed TCP Variants", PFLDnet, 2006.

• GEANT2's web page on High-Speed TCP Variants. Includes pointers to comparative studies, PFLD, etc.

• Internet Congestion Control Research Group (ICCRG) .

• A Survey of Transport Protocols other than Standard TCP, Eric He, Pascale Primet, and Michael Welzl, 2005.

• Design Space for a Bulk Transport Tool, Stanislav Shalunov, Lawrence D. Dunn, Yunhong Gu, Steven Low, Injong Rhee, Steven Senger, Bartek Wydrowski, and Lisong Xu, Internet2 Bulk Transport Working Group Report, May 2005.

• DOE/MICS' Net100 project.
  "The project is looking at both bulk transfer over high latency/bandwidth networks and grid-based applications, especially (but not limited to) DOE's ESnet."

• High Performance Networking in the Radiant project addresses the networking issues of computational grids.

• First International Workshop on Protocols for Fast Long-Distance Networks.
  "More and more researchers now routinely transfer between 10 GB and 1 TB of data over gigabit networks."

• The U.S.'s National Virtual Observatory.
  "With the advent of inexpensive storage technologies and the availability of high-speed networks, the concept of multi-terabyte on-line databases interoperating seamlessly is no longer outlandish."