[Iccrg] Call for reviewers for CTCP

[Murari Sridharan]

Mark, the text is in the conclusions section. My bad.

"Compound TCP has been implemented as an optional component in Microsoft
Windows Vista Operating System. It has been tested and experimented
through broad Windows Vista beta deployments where it has been verified
to meet its objectives without causing any adverse impact. SLAC has
also evaluated Compound TCP on production links. Based on testing and
evaluation done so far, we believe Compound TCP is safe to deploy on
the current Internet. We welcome additional analysis, testing and
evaluation of Compound TCP by Internet community at large and continue
to do additional testing ourselves."

Thanks
Murari


-----Original Message-----
From: iccrg-bounces at cs.ucl.ac.uk [mailto:iccrg-bounces at cs.ucl.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Mark Allman
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 8:03 AM
To: Michael Welzl
Cc: iccrg at cs.ucl.ac.uk
Subject: Re: [Iccrg] Call for reviewers for CTCP


I am confused ....

> One main conclusion that we are looking for is whether you agree with
> the statement on safeness which is included in the abstract of the
> draft (and obviously, we'd like to know how you arrived at your
> decision).

Err.  Perhaps you could tell us what statement in the abstract you are talking about.  My reading of the abstract (appended below for easy
access) is that it includes no such statement and therefore the question you ask above makes no sense to me.

allman


   This document proposes Compound TCP (CTCP), a modification to TCP's
   congestion control mechanism for use with TCP connections with large
   congestion windows. The key idea behind CTCP is to add a scalable
   delay-based component to the standard TCP's loss-based congestion
   control. The sending rate of CTCP is controlled by both loss and
   delay components. The delay-based component has a scalable window
   increasing rule that not only efficiently uses the link capacity,
   but on sensing queue build up, gracefully reduces the sending rate.
   We have implemented CTCP on Microsoft's Windows and we have done
   extensive testing on production links and in Windows Beta
   deployments. We also engaged with Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
   to evaluate the properties of CTCP. The results so far are very
   encouraging. This document describes the Compound TCP algorithm in
   detail, and solicits experimentation and feedback from the wider
   community. In this document, we collectively refer to any TCP
   congestion control algorithm that employs a linear increase function
   for congestion control, including TCP Reno and all its variants as
   Standard TCP.