PhD Qualifying Examination


"A Survey of TCP Designs for Heterogeneous Internet Environment"

By Mr. Shan Chen


Abstract:

The Internet has been evolving at an amazing speed. As a result, the
Internet nowadays is quite different from what it used to be. Optical
links, wired links, wireless-radio links, and even satellite links
become common in todays Internet. These heterogeneous transmission
media introduce new features to the Internet: high-bandwidth,
large-delay, random losses, etc. These new features, as well as the
characteristics of the current Internet traffic bring new challenges
to the Transmission Control Protocol, which was designed to provide
reliable, connection-oriented service and was well tuned to perform
well in traditional networks. In this survey, we present the severe
challenges that have to be addressed in order to provide efficient
and reliable transport services to all hosts regardless of the type
of underlying network links used. We survey the recently proposed
solutions and try to evaluate their suitability in heterogeneous
Internet environments with the most popular Internet traffics.


Date:     		Tuesday, 25 January 2005

Time:                   10:30a.m.-12:30p.m.

Venue:                  Room 2504
			lifts 25-26

Committee Members:      Prof. Vincent Shen (Supervisor)
			Dr. Jogesh Muppala (Chairperson)
			Dr. Brahim Bensaou
			Prof. Mounir Hamdi


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