[Iccrg] Meeting agenda

[Wesley Eddy]

On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 07:19:09PM +0200, Michael Welzl wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> Let's see what could be discussed at the planned ICCRG meeting.
> Topics we recently discussed on the list are:
> 
> - congestion control definition
> - taxonomy of congestion control approaches
> - issues surrounding explicit feedback
> - expanding the application of congestion control beyond file transfer
> - applicability of TMRG drafts to congestion control research
> 
> Any volunteers who would want to do a short presentation on
> one of these topics, or a similar one, and then hopefully
> get a discussion going?
> 
> Are there topics which you'd consider more interesting? I'm
> looking for your input!
>

The odds of me attending the meeting are exceedingly slim due to a date
conflict, but here are a couple of other topics that I think are sort of
unanswered questions the group might want to consider:

1) congestion control when striping data over multiple paths.  Issues
   here involve mechanisms for detecting the degree of independence between
   paths, and identifying shared-congestion on the common portions of
   multiple paths.  These have come up in the IETF in the context of SCTP.
   After shared congestion is identified, what is the proper response?

2) congestion control for mobile nodes and within mobile networks
   (either NEMO or Connexion by Boeing style).  What are the scenarios
   where existing mechanisms are valid, and under what conditions do
   they break down?  What is the space of solutions (e.g. you could do
   things like TCP RLCI, or more radical things)?  What is sensible for
   MANET-style networks?
 
I may be wrong, but if there are good and well-accepted answers to these
questions, I don't think they are widely known.

-- 
Wesley M. Eddy
Verizon Federal Network Systems