The International Computer Science Institute
is pleased to present a talk:

"Thoughts on the Evolution of TCP in the Internet"

Sally Floyd ICSI
floyd icir.org

Wednesday, March 17, 2004 ICSI, Conference Room 6A 12:30 pm

This talk will be an elaboration of a talk I gave at the Second International Workshop on Protocols for Fast Long-Distance Networks in February, posing questions about the following:

* the role of additional congestion-related feedback from routers to end nodes;

* communication between transport and link layers;

* the costs and/or benefits of maintaining state in routers for very large flows (e.g., 10Gbps);

* the fundamental limitations of window-based congestion control;

* the fundamental limitations of no per-flow state in routers;

* the fundamental limitations of best-effort service.