J. Broch, D. Maltz, D. Johnson, Y-C Hu, J. Jetcheva, "A Performance Comparison of Multi-Hop Wireless Ad Hoc Network Routing Protocols," ACM Mobicom Conference, (October 1998). [PDF]
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A High Throughput Path Metric for Multi-Hop Wireless Routing
D. De Couto, D. Aguayo, J. Bicket, R. Morris, "A High Throughput Path Metric for Multi-Hop Wireless Routing," ACM Mobicom Conference, (September 2003). [PDF]
Summary
This paper presents ETX (expected transmission count), a new metric to find high-throughput paths on multi-hop wireless networks (802.11b), which minimizes the expected total number of packet transmissions (including retransmissions) … Continue Reading ››Architecture and Evaluation of an Unplanned 802.11b Mesh Network
J. Bicket, D. Aguayo, S. Biswas, R. Morris, "Architecture and Evaluation of an Unplanned 802.11b Mesh Network," ACM Mobicom Conference, (September 2005). [PDF]
Summary
Planning and deployment of a large wireless mesh network in a urban area is complex, time-consuming, and expensive . This paper argues that an unplanned wireless mesh network with commodity hardware … Continue Reading ››Modeling Wireless Links for Transport Protocols
Andrei Gurtov, Sally Floyd, "Modeling Wireless Links for Transport Protocols," ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communications Review, Volume 34, Number 2, (April 2004). [PDF]
Summary
Intrinsic characteristics of wireless links (e.g., variable bandwidth, bit corruption, channel allocation delays, and asymmetry) significantly affect performance of transport protocols. In addition, different types of wireless links show noticeable variance in … Continue Reading ››A Comparison of Mechanisms for Improving TCP Performance over Wireless Links
H. Balakrishnan, V. Padmanabhan, S. Seshan, R. H. Katz, "A Comparison of Mechanisms for Improving TCP Performance over Wireless Links," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, (December 1997). [PDF]
Summary
Unlike wired networks, congestion is not the only source of packet loss in wireless networks. Networks with wireless and lossy links also suffer from significant losses due … Continue Reading ››MACAW: A Media Access Protocol for Wireless LANs
V. Bharghavan, A. Demers, S. Shenker, L. Zhang, "MACAW: A Media Access Protocol for Wireless LANs," ACM SIGCOMM Conference, (August 1994). [PDF]
Summary
The media in a wireless network is a shared and scarce resource; as a result, controlling access to this shared media to maximize performance is one of the key issues in wireless … Continue Reading ››Understanding TCP Incast Throughput Collapse in Datacenter Networks
Y. Chen, R. Griffith, J. Liu, A. Joseph, R. H. Katz, "Understanding TCP Incast Throughput Collapse in Datacenter Networks," Workshop on Research in Enterprise Networks (WREN'09), (August 2009). [PDF]
Summary
This paper presents a diagnosis of the TCP incast collapse problem and proposes a framework for a solution that should be:- generalized: not limited to … Continue Reading ››
Safe and Effective Fine-grained TCP Retransmissions for Datacenter Communication
V. Vasudevan, A. Phanishayee, H. Shah, E. Krevat, D. G. Andersen, G. R. Ganger, G. A. Gibson, B. Mueller, "Safe and Effective Fine-grained TCP Retransmissions for Datacenter Communication," ACM SIGCOMM Conference, (August 2009). [PDF]
The TCP Incast Collapse Problem
In data centers with high-fan-in, high-bandwidth synchronized TCP workloads, receivers can experience a drastic … Continue Reading ››VL2: A Scalable and Flexible Data Center Network
A. Greenberg, J. R. Hamilton, N. Jain, S. Kandula, C. Kim, P. Lahiri, D. A. Maltz, P. Patel, S. Sengupta, "VL2: A Scalable and Flexible Data Center Network," ACM SIGCOMM, (August 2009). [PDF]
Summary
VL2 is a scalable data center architecture to provide uniform high capacity between servers, performance isolation between services, Ethernet layer … Continue Reading ››PortLand: A Scalable Fault-Tolerant Layer 2 Data Center Network Fabric
R. N. Mysore, A. Pamboris, N. Farrington, N. Huang, P. Miri, S. Radhakrishnan, V. Subramanya, A. Vahdat, "PortLand: A Scalable Fault-Tolerant Layer 2 Data Center Network Fabric", ACM SIGCOMM, (August 2009). [PDF]