[Iccrg] Re: Easter egg in my flow Isolation (non) talk

Matt Mathis matt.mathis at gmail.com
Mon Mar 29 04:05:13 BST 2010


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On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Matt Mathis <matt.mathis at gmail.com> wrote:
> Due to constraints on the meeting time and the extension for the IW
> discussion, my presentation on Flow Isolation fell off the agenda.
>
> I would like to point out an unrelated mini-talk attached to the end
> of my flow isolation slides, titled "TCP is still lame" (slides
> 30-35).   It outlines a complete restructuring of the current
> congestion control algorithms.  My proposal does not change any of the
> principles behind any of the current algorithms, but would completely
> change their implementations to make them far simpler and TCP's
> behavior easier to model.  Furthermore many of the existing algorithms
> become implicit:  sshthresh disappears completely, and the initial
> slowstart happens as a side effect of setting cwnd=MAXWIN
>
> I'm guessing the new algorithms would be about 10% of the current code....
>

My talk is on the meeting materials page or
http://staff.psc.edu/mathis/papers/FlowIsolation20100323.pdf

Thanks,
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