CS 655 - Transport

Topics / Overview

Multiplexing, Virtual Channel
Reliable Transmission
Flow Control, Congestion Control
Connection Management and Semantics

Literature

Most of the lecture material is well covered in standard textbooks or online. Below are some starting points for advanced readings.

Note: For off-campus access to digital libraries, please see Connect from Home. Burkay Genc has kindly written a firefox plugin that simplifies the process. On any page, right-click and select "MyLibrary" to be redirected to the library login page (if necessary) and then the proxy-based web page.

The Transmission Control Protocol. Wael Noureddine and Fouad Tobagi. Technical Report. Jul 2002.
Host-to-Host Congestion Control for TCP. Alexander Afanasyev, Neil Tilley, Peter Reiher, and Leonard Kleinrock. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 12(3):304-342. Aug 2010.
Stream Control Transmission Protocol. R. Stewart, Ed. RFC 4960. Sep 2007.
Designing DCCP: Congestion Control Without Reliability. Eddie Kohler, Mark Handley, and Sally Floyd. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (Proceedings of SIGCOMM 2006), 36(4):27-38. Oct 2006.
Structured Streams: a New Transport Abstraction. Bryan Ford. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (Proceedings of SIGCOMM 2007), 37(4):361-372. Oct 2007.