Papers on TCP modeling and related topics

Please contact Jitendra Padhye if you know of a paper that should be listed here.

2001

S. Athuraliya, V. H. Li, S. H. Low and Q. Yin, REM: Active Queue Management . Proceedings of the 17th International Teletraffic Congress, Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, September 24-28, 2001.
A. Canton and T. Chahed End-to-end reliability in UMTS: TCP over ARQ . Extened version of paper published in proceedings of Globecomm 2001.
V. Dumas, F. Guillemin and P. Robert. Limit results for Markovian models of TCP . Under review. Extended Version
M. Garetto, R. Cigno, M. Meo, M. Marsan. A Detailed and Accurate Closed Queueing Network Model of Many Interacting TCP Flows, INFOCOMM 2001.
C. Hollot, V. Misra, D. Towsley and W. Gong. On Designing Improved Controllers for AQM Routers Supporting TCP Flows , INFOCOMM 2001.
C. Hollot, V. Misra, D. Towsley and W. Gong. A Control Theoretic Analysis of RED , INFOCOMM 2001.
S. Low, L. Peterson and L. Wang, Understanding TCP Vegas: A duality model SIGMETRICS 2001
M. Mitzenmacher and R. Rajaraman. Towards More Complete Models of TCP Latency and Throughput , To appear in the Journal of Supercomputing.
M. Roughan, A. Erramilli and D. Veitch Network performance for TCP networks. Part 1: Persistent sources. , In the proccedings of Seventennth International Teletraffic Congress, Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, September 24-28, 2001.
H. Schwefel. Behavior of TCP-like Elastic Traffic at a Buffered Bottleneck Router , INFOCOMM 2001.
S. Shakkotai and A. Kumar, A. Karnik and A. Anvekar. TCP over End-to-End ABR: TCP Performance with End-to-End Rate Control and Stochastic Available Capacity to appear in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.
B. Sikdar, S. Kalyanaraman and K. S. Vastola. An Integrated Model for the Latency and Steady-State Throughput of TCP Connections . Performance Evaluation, vol. 46, no. 2-3, pp. 139-154, September 2001.
B. Sikdar, S. Kalyanaraman and K. S. Vastola, Analytic models and comparative study of the latency and steady-state throughput of TCP Tahoe, Reno and SACK . Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM, San Antonio, TX, November 2001.
Y. Yang, M. Kim, S. Lam. Transient Behaviors of TCP-friendly Congestion Control Protocols , INFOCOMM 2001.

2000

E. Altman, K. Avrachenkov and C. Barakat A Stochastic Model of TCP/IP with Stationary Random Loss, SIGCOMM 2000.
E. Altman, K. Avrachenkov and C. Barakat TCP in presence of bursty losses, SIGMETRICS 2000.
F. Baccelli and D. Hong, TCP is Max-Plus Linear, SIGCOMM 2000.
N. Cardwell, S. Savage and T. Anderson. Modeling TCP Latency, INFOCOMM 2000.
S. H. Low, A Duality Model of TCP and Queue Management Algorithms , Extended version of paper that appears in Proceedings of ITC Specialist Seminar on IP Traffic Measurement, Modeling and Management, September 18-20, 2000, Monterey, CA (USA)
V. Misra, W. Gong and D. Towsley. A Fluid-based Analysis of a Network of AQM Routers Supporting TCP Flows with an Application to RED , SIGCOMM 2000.
A. Karnik and A. Kumar. Performance of TCP Congestion Control with Rate Feedback: Rate Adaptive TCP (RATCP) IEEE Globecom 2000, San Francisco, November 2000.
S. Sahu, P. Nain, D. Towsley, C. Diot and V. Firoiu On Achievable Service Differentiation with Token Bucket Marking for TCP , SIGMETRICS 2000.

1999

F. Anjum and L. Tassiula, On the Behavior of Different TCP Algorithms over a Wireless Channel with Correlated Packet Losses, SIGMETRICS 1999.
Floyd, S., and Fall, K., Promoting the Use of End-to-End Congestion Control in the Internet. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, August 1999.
V. Misra, W. Gong and D. Towsley, Stochastic Differential Equation Modeling and Analysis of TCP Windowsize Behavior Proceedings of Performance'99, October 1999.
S. Savari and E. Telatar, The Behavior of Stochastic Processes Arising in Window Protocols, Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, June 1999.
I. Yeom and A. L. N. Reddy, Modeling TCP behavior in a Differentiated-Services Network, TAMU ECE Technical Report, May 1999.

1998

A. Kumar. Comparative Performance Analysis of Versions of TCP in local network with a lossy link, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, August 1998.
Padhye, J., Firoiu, V., Towsley, D., and Kurose, J., Modeling TCP Throughput: a Simple Model and its Empirical Validation, SIGCOMM 1998.
J. Padhye, V. Firoiu and D. Towsley, A Stochastic Model of TCP Reno Congestion Avoidance and Control, Technical Report 99-02, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

1997

Balakrishnan, H., How do Different Congestion Control and Avoidance Policies Influence Packet Loss Rates?, December 1997.
Henderson, T. and E. Sahouria, Improving Fairness of TCP Congestion Avoidance, Class project (WORK IN PROGRESS), May 1997.
T. V. Lakshman, U. Madhow, The Performance of Networks with High Bandwidth-delay Products and Random Loss, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, June 1997.
T. V. Lakshman, U. Madhow, B. Suter, Window-based Error Recovery and Flow Control with a Slow Acknowledgment Channel: a Study of TCP/IP Performance, Proceedings of Infocom '97, April 1997.
M. Mathis, J. Semke, J. Mahdavi, T. Ott, The Macroscopic Behavior of the TCP Congestion Avoidance Algorithm,Computer Communication Review, volume 27, number3, July 1997.

1996

T. Ott, J.H.B. Kemperman, M. Mathis, The Stationary Behavior of Ideal TCP Congestion Avoidance.
T. Ott, J.H.B. Kemperman, M. Mathis, Window Size Behavior in TCP/IP with Constant Loss Probability.

1992

Floyd, S., and Jacobson, V., On Traffic Phase Effects in Packet-Switched Gateways (compressed pos tscript, pdf). Internetworking: Research and Experience, V.3 N.3, September 1992, p.115-156.

1991

Floyd, S., Connections with Multiple Congested Gateways in Packet-Switched Networks Part 1: One-way Traffic. Computer Communication Review, Vol.21, No.5, October 1991, p. 30-47.