Papers

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• Mark Allman. TCP Slow Start Survey: Standards & Issues, July 2008. Internet-Draft draft-allman-slow-start-00.txt (work in progress).

• Mark Allman, Vern Paxson, Ethan Blanton. TCP Congestion Control, April 2008. Internet-Draft draft-ietf-tcpm-rfc2581bis-04.txt (work in progress).

• Mark Allman, Konstantin Avrachenkov, Urtzi Ayesta, Josh Blanton, Per Hurtig. Early Retransmit for TCP and SCTP, February 2008. Internet-Draft draft-allman-tcp-early-rexmt-06.txt (work in progress).

• Josh Blanton, Ethan Blanton, Mark Allman. Using Spurious Retransmissions to Adapt the Retransmission Timeout. July 2007. Internet-Draft draft-allman-rto-backoff-05.txt (work in progress).

• Mark Allman, Christian Kreibich, Vern Paxson, Robin Sommer, Nicholas Weaver. Principles for Developing Comprehensive Network Visibility. USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Security, July 2008. To appear.

• Sally Floyd, Mark Allman. Comments on the Usefulness of Simple Best-Effort Traffic, July 2008. RFC 5290.

• Mark Allman, Vern Paxson. A Reactive Measurement Framework. Passive and Active Measurement Conference, April 2008.

• Mark Allman, Lann Martin, Michael Rabinovich, Kenneth Atchinson. On Community-Oriented Internet Measurement. Passive and Active Measurement Conference, April 2008.

• Mark Allman. What Ought A Program Committee To Do?. USENIX Workshop on Organizing Workshops, Conferences, and Symposia for Computer Systems (WOWCS), April 2008. Slides available.

• Mark Allman. Thoughts on Reviewing. ACM Computer Communication Review, Editorial Contribution, 38(2), April 2008.

• Mark Allman, Ken Christensen, Bruce Nordman, Vern Paxson. Enabling an Energy-Efficient Future Internet Through Selectively Connected End Systems. ACM SIGCOMM HotNets, November 2007. Talk slides available.

• Mark Allman. Personal Namespaces. ACM SIGCOMM HotNets, November 2007. Talk slides available.

• Mark Allman, Vern Paxson, Jeff Terrell. A Brief History of Scanning. ACM SIGCOMM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference, October 2007.

• Mark Allman, Vern Paxson. Issues and Etiquette Concerning Use of Shared Measurement Data. ACM SIGCOMM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference, October 2007. Talk slides available.

• Mark Allman, Christian Kreibich, Vern Paxson, Robin Sommer, Nicholas Weaver. The Strengths of Weaker Identities: Opportunistic Personas. USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Security (HotSec), August 2007. Talk slides available.

• Sally Floyd, Mark Allman. Specifying New Congestion Control Algorithms, August 2007. RFC 5033, BCP 133.

• Pasi Sarolahti, Mark Allman, Sally Floyd. Determining an Appropriate Sending Rate Over an Underutilized Network Path. Computer Networks Special Issue on Protocols for Fast, Long-Distance Networks, 51(7), May 2007.

• Dan Liu, Mark Allman, Shudong Jin, Limin Wang. Congestion Control Without a Startup Phase. Workshop on Protocols for Fast Long-Distance Networks (PFLDnet), February 2007.

• Sally Floyd, Mark Allman, Amit Jain, Pasi Sarolahti. Quick-Start for TCP and IP, January 2007. RFC 4782.

• Mark Allman, Ethan Blanton, Vern Paxson, Scott Shenker. Fighting Coordinated Attackers with Cross-Organizational Information Sharing. ACM SIGCOMM HotNets, November 2006. Public review available.

• Andrew Parker, Sasank Reddy, Thomas Schmidt, Kevin Chang, Ganeriwal Saurabh, Mani Srivastava, Mark Hansen, Jeff Burke, Deborah Estrin, Mark Allman, Vern Paxson. Network System Challenges in Selective Sharing and Verification for Personal, Social, and Urban-Scale Sensing Applications. ACM SIGCOMM HotNets, November 2006. Public review available.

• Sumitha Bhandarkar, A. L. Narasimha Reddy, Mark Allman, Ethan Blanton. Improving the Robustness of TCP to Non-Congestion Events, August 2006. RFC 4653.

• Mark Allman, Paul Barford, Balachander Krishnamurthy, Jia Wang. Tracking the Role of Adversaries in Measuring Unwanted Traffic. Workshop on Steps to Reduce Unwanted Traffic on the Internet (SRUTI), July 2006.

• Mani Srivastava, Mark Hansen, Jeff Burke, Andrew Parker, Sasank Reddy, Ganeriwal Saurabh, Mark Allman, Vern Paxson, Deborah Estrin. Wireless Urban Sensing Systems. CENS Technical Report #65, University of California, Los Angeles, April 2006.

• Ruoming Pang, Mark Allman, Vern Paxson, Jason Lee. The Devil and Packet Trace Anonymization. ACM Computer Communication Review, 36(1), January 2006. The public review of this paper is avalable here.

• Ruoming Pang, Mark Allman, Mike Bennett, Jason Lee, Vern Paxson, Brian Tierney. A First Look at Modern Enterprise Traffic. ACM SIGCOMM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference, October 2005.

• Mark Allman, Ethan Blanton, Vern Paxson. An Architecture for Developing Behavioral History. Workshop on Steps to Reduce Unwanted Traffic on the Internet (SRUTI), July 2005. Presentation slides available.

• Alberto Medina, Mark Allman, Sally Floyd. Measuring the Evolution of Transport Protocols in the Internet. ACM Computer Communication Review, 35(2), April 2005.

• Mark Allman, Ethan Blanton. Notes on Burst Mitigation for Transport Protocols. ACM Computer Communication Review, 35(2), April 2005.

• Ethan Blanton, Mark Allman. On the Impact of Bursting on TCP Performance. Proceedings of the Workshop for Passive and Active Measurement, March 2005. Presentation slides available.

• Priya Narasimhan, Hans Kruse, Shawn Ostermann, Mark Allman. On the Impact of BER on Realistic TCP Traffic in Satellite Networks. Technical Report 04-005, International Computer Science Institute, November 2004.

• Alberto Medina, Mark Allman, Sally Floyd. Measuring Interactions Between Transport Protocols and Middleboxes. ACM SIGCOMM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference, Taormina, Sicily, Italy, October 2004.

• Wesley Eddy, Shawn Ostermann, Mark Allman. New Techniques for Making Transport Protocols Robust to Corruption-Based Loss. ACM Computer Communication Review, 34(5), October 2004.

• Rajesh Krishnan, James Sterbenz, Wesley Eddy, Craig Partridge, Mark Allman. Explicit Transport Error Notification (ETEN) for Error-Prone Wireless and Satellite Networks. Computer Networks, 46(3), October 2004.

• Ethan Blanton, Mark Allman. Using TCP Duplicate Selective Acknowledgement (DSACKs) and Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Duplicate Transmission Sequence Numbers (TSNs) to Detect Spurious Retransmissions, February 2004. RFC 3708.

• Mark Allman, Wesley Eddy, Shawn Ostermann. Estimating Loss Rates With TCP. ACM Performance Evaluation Review, 31(3), December 2003.

• Mark Allman. On the Performance of Middleboxes. ACM SIGCOMM/Usenix Internet Measurement Conference, Miami, FL, USA, October 2003. Presentation slides available.

• Wesley Eddy, Mark Allman. A Comparison of RED's Byte and Packet Modes. Computer Networks, 42(2), June 2003.

• Ethan Blanton, Mark Allman, Kevin Fall, Lili Wang. A Conservative Selective Acknowledgment (SACK)-based Loss Recovery Algorithm for TCP, April 2003. RFC 3517.

• Mark Allman. An Evaluation of XML-RPC. ACM Performance Evaluation Review, 30(4), March 2003.

• Mark Allman. TCP Congestion Control with Appropriate Byte Counting (ABC), February 2003. RFC 3465.

• Mark Allman, Sally Floyd, Craig Partridge. Increasing TCP's Initial Window, October 2002. RFC 3390.

• Wesley Eddy, Mark Allman. A Comparison of RED's Byte and Packet Modes, ACM SIGCOMM Student Poster Session, August 2002. An abstract of the poster is available, as well as the poster itself.

• Rajesh Krishnan, Mark Allman, Craig Partridge, James P.G. Sterbenz, William Ivancic. Explicit Transport Error Notification (ETEN) for Error-Prone Wireless and Satellite Networks - Summary. Earth Science Technology Conference, Pasadena, CA, June 2002.

• Mark Allman, Ethan Blanton, Wesley Eddy. A Scalable System for Sharing Internet Measurements. Proceedings of the Passive and Active Measurement Workshop, March 2002.

• Craig Partridge, Dennis Rockwell, Mark Allman, Rajesh Krishnan, James P.G. Sterbenz. A Swifter Start for TCP. Technical Report No. 8339, BBN Technologies, March 2002.

• Rajesh Krishnan, Mark Allman, Craig Partridge, James P.G. Sterbenz. Explicit Transport Error Notification (ETEN) for Error-Prone Wireless and Satellite Networks. Technical Report No. 8333, BBN Technologies, March 2002.

• Ethan Blanton, Mark Allman. On Making TCP More Robust to Packet Reordering. ACM Computer Communication Review, 32(1), January 2002.

• Mark Allman. Measuring End-to-End Bulk Transfer Capacity. ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Workshop. November 2001. Presentation slides also available.

• Joseph Ishac, Mark Allman. On the Performance of TCP Spoofing in Satellite Networks. IEEE Milcom. October 2001.

• Matt Mathis, Mark Allman. A Framework for Defining Empirical Bulk Transfer Capacity Metrics, July 2001. RFC 3148.

• Mark Allman, Vern Paxson. Sobre la estimación de propiedades de secuencia de redes de punta a punta. Conferencia sobre Comunicación de Datos en América Latina y el Caribe, Abril 2001.

  Mark Allman, Vern Paxson. On Estimating End-to-End Network Path Properties. ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Data Communication in Latin American and the Caribbean, April 2001. This paper was originally presented at ACM SIGCOMM 1999.

• Hans Kruse, Mark Allman, Jim Griner, Diepchi Tran. Experimentation and Modeling of HTTP Over Satellite Channels. International Journal of Satellite Communications, 19(1), January/February 2001.

• Mark Allman, Hari Balakrishnan, Sally Floyd. Enhancing TCP's Loss Recovery Using Limited Transmit, January 2001. RFC 3042.

• Vern Paxson, Mark Allman. Computing TCP's Retransmission Timer, November 2000. RFC 2988.

• Mark Allman, Jim Griner, Alan Richard. TCP Behavior in Networks with Dynamic Propagation Delay. Proceedings of Globecom 2000, November 2000. Presentation slides also available.

• Mark Allman. A Web Server's View of the Transport Layer. ACM Computer Communication Review, 30(5), October 2000.

• Hans Kruse, Shawn Ostermann, Mark Allman. On the Performance of TCP-based Data Transfers on a Faded Ka-Band Satellite Link. Proceedings of the 6th Ka-Band Utilization Conference, June 2000.

• Mark Allman, Hans Kruse, Shawn Ostermann. A History of the Improvement of Internet Protocols Over Satellites Using ACTS. Invited paper for ACTS Conference 2000, May 2000. The presentation slides are also available.

• Mark Allman, Spencer Dawkins, Dan Glover, Jim Griner, Diepchi Tran, Tom Henderson, John Heidemann, Joe Touch, Hans Kruse, Shawn Ostermann, Keith Scott, Jeff Semke. Ongoing TCP Research Related to Satellites, February 2000. RFC 2760.

• Wesley Eddy, Mark Allman. Advantages of Parallel Processing and the Effects of Communications Time. Technical Report CR-209455, NASA Glenn Research Center, February 2000. (Note: the postscript might not work with ghostview, but seems to print fine. A PDF version is also available.)

• Mark Allman, Shawn Ostermann. FTP Extensions for Variable Protocol Specification. Technical Report CR-209414, NASA Glenn Research Center, February 2000.

• Mark Allman, Aaron Falk. On the Effective Evaluation of TCP. ACM Computer Communication Review, 29(5), October 1999.

• Mark Allman, Vern Paxson. On Estimating End-to-End Network Path Properties. ACM SIGCOMM, September 1999, Cambridge, MA. Presentation slides also available. (Also, a picture of the audience).

• Mark Allman. TCP Byte Counting Refinements. ACM Computer Communication Review, 29(3), July 1999.

• Mark Allman, Shawn Ostermann. FTP Security Considerations, May 1999. RFC 2577.

• Mark Allman, Vern Paxson, W. Richard Stevens. TCP Congestion Control, April 1999. RFC 2581.

• Vern Paxson, Mark Allman, Scott Dawson, William Fenner, Jim Griner, Ian Heavens, Kevin Lahey, Jeff Semke, Bernie Volz. Known TCP Implementation Problems, March 1999. RFC 2525.

• Hans Kruse, Mark Allman, Jim Griner, Shawn Ostermann, Eric Helvey. Satellite Network Performance Measurements Using Simulated Multi-User Internet Traffic. March 1999. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Telecommunication Systems. (Note: the postscript might not work with ghostview, but seems to print fine. A PDF version is also available.)

• Mark Allman, Dan Glover, Luis Sanchez. Enhancing TCP Over Satellite Channels using Standard Mechanisms, January 1999. RFC 2488, BCP 28.

• Hans Kruse, Mark Allman, Paul Mallasch. Network and User-Perceived Performance of Web Page Retrievals. November, 1998. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Telecommunications and Electronic Commerce (ICTEC).

• Mark Allman. On the Generation and Use of TCP Acknowledgments. ACM Computer Communication Review, 28(5), October 1998.

• Mark Allman, Shawn Ostermann, Craig Metz. FTP Extensions for IPv6 and NATs, September 1998. RFC 2428.

• Mark Allman, Sally Floyd, Craig Partridge. Increasing TCP's Initial Window, September 1998. RFC 2414.

• Mark Allman, Chris Hayes, Shawn Ostermann. An Evaluation of TCP with Larger Initial Windows. ACM Computer Communication Review, 28(3), July 1998.

• Hans Kruse, Mark Allman, Jim Griner, Diepchi Tran. HTTP Page Transfer Rates Over Geo-Stationary Satellite Links. March 1998. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Telecommunication Systems.