Monday, September 4, 2000

Session 1: Relating TCP throughput to packet loss

9:00 - 10:00 (presentation: 50mn; questions/discussion: 10mn):

"TCP in the presence of a stationary loss process," Eitan Altman, Kostya Avratchenkov and Chadi Barakat (INRIA, France)

10:00 - 11:00

"TCP is max plus linear," François Baccelli and Dohy Hong (INRIA/ENS, France) 
 

11:30 - 12:30

"ECN Protocols and the TCP Paradigm," Teunis Ott (Telcordia, USA)

14:30 - 15:30

"ECAM - Efficient Congestion Avoidance Mechanism," Serge Fdida and Anca Dracinschi (University Paris 6, France)

15:30 - 16:30
"A comparison of equation-based and AIMD congestion control," Sally Floyd, Mark Handley and Jitendra Padhye (ACIRI, USA)

17:00 - 18:00
"General AIMD congestion control and its transient behaviors" Y. Richard Yang (Univ. of Texas at Austin)

18:00 Reception

Tuesday, September 5, 2000

8:30 - 9:30

"Influence of active queue management parameters on aggregate traffic performance," Martin May (INRIA, France), Christophe Diot and Bryan Lyles (Sprintlabs, USA)

9:30 - 10:30

"TCP and Active Queue Management: A Control Theoretic Viewpoint,"
Vishal Misra and Don Towsley (Univ. Massachusetts, USA)

11:00 - 12:00

"Achievable service differentiation with token bucket marking for TCP," Sambit Sahu (Univ. Massachusetts, USA), Philippe Nain (INRIA, France), Don Towsley (Univ. Massachusetts, USA), Christophe Diot (Sprintlabs, USA) and V. Firoiu (Bay Architecture Lab., USA)

14:00 - 15:00

"Impact of congestion control on Internet stability and performance," Thomas Bonald (France Telecom R&D, France), Laurent Massoulié (Microsoft Research, UK) and Jim W. Roberts (France Telecom R&D, France)

15:00 - 16:00

"On using marks for pricing in multiclass packet networks to provide multidimensional QoS," Bruce Hajek and Juan Alvarez (Univ. Illinois, USA)

16:30 - 17:30

"End-user schemes for predicting congestion patterns," Peter Key and Laurent Massoulié (Microsoft Research, UK)

17:30 - 18:30
"Coordinated TCP/UDP Rate Control for Proxy-Assisted Video Streaming" Zhi-Li Zhang (Univ. Minnesota, USA)
 
 

Wednesday, September 6, 2000

Session 5: Rate sharing achieved by TCP

8:30 - 9:30

"Resource sharing by TCP connections," Patrick Brown (France Telecom R&D, France)

9:30 - 10:30

"Global TCP modeling: the limit mean ODE and its convergence," Milan Vojnovic and Jean-Yves Le Boudec (EPFL, Switzerland)

11:00 - 12:00

"Fixed point methods for the simulation of a large number of interacting TCP connections," François Baccelli, Dohy Hong (INRIA/ENS, France) and Zhen Liu (INRIA, France)

14:00 - 15:00

"Performance analysis of TCP with nonpersistent sessions" Arzad A. Kherani and Anurag Kumar (IISc, India)

15:00 - 16:00

On stability as QoS objective for elastic traffic in the Internet," Thomas Bonald and Jim W. Roberts (France Telecom R&D, France)

16:30 - 17:30

"A framework for designing a low-loss, low-delay Internet," R. Srikant (Univ. Illinois, USA)