Sally Floyd - Information

• Email: floyd at acm.org, and my PGP key.
• Papers (RFCs only), talks, and informal notes.
• Contact information, and schedule and recent travel.
• October 2005 vacation in South Africa!
  (To see captions, click on the first small photo.)
• Today's weather and astronomy pictures.
  

Biography

• Research projects (e.g., ACC and Pushback, DCCP, ECN, HighSpeed TCP, Models, NS, Quick-Start, RED, RED-PD, TBIT, TFRC, TMRG).
• Professional activities (e.g., in the IAB, IETF, IRTF, SIGCOMM).

Pointers to the literature:

Congestion control:
• Changes proposed to TCP (2007*).
  
• TCP-friendly Congestion Control (1999*).
• Global Optimization with End-to-End Congestion Control (2001*).
  
• Measurement Studies of End-to-End Congestion Control in the Internet (2007*).
• Partial Checksums - Pointers to the Issues (2003*).
• Self-similarity and Long Range Dependence in Networks (1999*).
  General Internet architecture:
• Interactions of Link-Layer and Transport Protocols (2007*).
• Research Questions for the Internet (2003*).
• The Evolvability of the Internet Infrastructure (2007*).
• Layering and the Internet Architecture.
• Email spam and viruses: some pointers to the problem.
• Papers on the history of interactions between the IETF and governments' policies.
• Questions about the Internet.
• Pointers to the literature maintained by others
  *: date last updated

In real life...

• Other interests.

• I am semi-retired as of January 2008, and am working only a few hours a day.
• Resume.
• Bookmarks include the following:
  • the "marvelous" Sally Floyd in Wikipedia.
  • ResearchIndex, the NECI scientific literature digital library.
  • The Internet Society's Internet Report, for accessing RFCs, drafts, IANA numbers, etc.
  • An article about Asperger's syndrome.
  • UCSF Multiple Sclerosis Center. (I was diagnosed with MS in January 2007. 2008 MRI.)
  • Photographs by Christopher Burkett, Will Connor, Larry Kanfer, and Kennan Ward.
  • Global warming (also from Weathervane, Pew Center, Climate Ark, GCRIO, Union of Concerned Scientists).
• Note on email: I have not yet figured out how to deal with my email promptly while still managing to get some work done and have a life. So my apologies to colleagues, friends, and others who would appreciate a response to your email. I am doing the best I can. My mailbox still sometimes becomes a black hole.
  I am not able to answer general requests for information. Questions about the ns simulator, for example, should be sent to one of the relevant ns mailing lists.
  - "If someone could solve the `how to process all this mail and still get real work done' problem, I'd be all ears." - Mark Allman