Hamilton Institute NetLab

Research

TCP Congestion Control

• H-TCP: TCP Congestion Control for High Bandwidth-Delay Product Paths
• Experimental Evaluation of TCP Protocols
• Mathematical Modelling of Network Dynamics
• Link provisioning, buffer provisioning and AQMs
• Delay-based congestion control

Wireless Networks

• Modelling 802.11 WLANs (incl. 802.11e and mesh)
• TCP over 802.11 WLANs
• Supporting Voice and Data Traffic in 802.11e WLAN’s
• Link provisioning, buffer provisioning and AQMs
• Achieving high throughput at the MAC layer – 802.11n
• Channel Allocation in WLANs and Decentralised Constraint Satisfaction
  • See our java applet that uses the CFL algorithm to colour a variety of different types of graph.
• Measuring channel quality

Mesh Networks

• Fairness in WLAN Mesh Networks
• Low-Delay Multi-path Routing in WLAN Mesh Networks
• Low-Delay Coding

Software

See here.

People

• Douglas Leith
• David Malone
• Ken Duffy
• Tianji Li
• Premkumar Karumbu
• Paul Patras
• Brad Zarikoff
• Darren Kavanagh
• Xiaomin Chen
• Alessandro Checco
• Mark Christiansen
• Javier Zazo
• Adnan Cheema
• Wunan Gong
• Hanghang Qi
• Hessan Feghhi

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