[Iccrg] Fwd: Possible Internet2 awards program for new TCP stacks

[Aaron Falk]

Of possible interest.  --aaron

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> From: Richard Carlson <rcarlson at internet2.edu>
> Date: July 6, 2006 2:44:48 PM EDT (CA)
> To: Joe Touch <touch at ISI.EDU>, Pascale Primet <pascale.primet at ens- 
> lyon.fr>, Katsushi Kobayashi <ikob at koganei.wide.ad.jp>, Aaron Falk  
> <falk at ISI.EDU>, "Douglas Leith" <doug at eee.strath.ac.uk>, "R. Hughes- 
> Jones" <R.Hughes-Jones at manchester.ac.uk>, "Cottrell, Les"  
> <cottrell at slac.stanford.edu>, Brian Tierney <bltierney at lbl.gov>
> Cc: Injong Rhee <rhee at eos.ncsu.edu>, Sally Floyd <floyd at icir.org>,  
> Jason Leigh <drspiff at mac.com>, Richard Carlson  
> <rcarlson at internet2.edu>
> Subject: Possible Internet2 awards program for new TCP stacks
>
> All;
>
> Hopefully you all know about the Internet2 Land Speed Record (LSR)  
> awards program http://lsr.internet2.edu/  Briefly, the LSR awards  
> program was established in 2000 to promote demonstrations that  
> highlight TCP's potential.  As the rules state, each entry must be  
> a RFC-791/793 stack with 1 or more sockets sending data between 2  
> Internet nodes.
>
> The original record was 751 Mbps over 5600 Kmeters.  The latest  
> record is 8.8 Gpbs over 30,000 Kmeters (the web page is out of  
> date).  Given that the current record crossed some 10 GE WAN-PHY  
> links and the rules call for a 10% increase to set a new record, we  
> may have to wait a while before the next generation 40/100 Gig HW  
> comes out.
>
> While these experiments show that TCP is capable of running at line  
> rates over any distance, we all know that performance can drop  
> dramatically if losses occur.  In fact, if you look at the MRTG  
> graphs the wining teams supply you can see they make multiple runs  
> and discard tests that suffer from any type of packet loss.
>
> Internet2 is looking for some way to promote testing, evaluation,  
> and growth in the field of TCP stack research.  One idea is to  
> create a new awards program, along the lines of the existing LSR  
> program.   I'm looking for advice and guidance on:
>
> 1) is this a good idea?
>
> 2) if so, what rules need to be changes/modified?
>         a) should some type of loss metric be included?
>         b) verification mechanisms?
>         c) is distance an important metric?
>         d) ensure others duplicate/repeat the experiment
>
> 3) if not, is there a better way to promote TCP stack research?
>
> Thanks in advance.  Any thought, comments, or suggestions would be  
> greatly appreciated.  Feel free to share this email with your  
> colleagues and collaborators.
>
> Regards;
> Rich
>
>
>
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