Ethan Blanton and I have been working on both assessing the amount and the impact of micro-bursting on TCP performance in the wild, as well as avaluating ways to cope with micro-bursting within TCP.

Papers

• Janardhan Iyengar, Mark Allman, Ethan Blanton. TCP Burst Mitigation Through Congestion Window Limiting, January 2006. Internet-Draft draft-iyengar-burst-mitigation-01.txt (work in progress).

• 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.