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Hamilton Institute Workshop on Congestion Control

27th and 28th September 2005

The Hamilton Institute held a workshop to discuss outstanding issues in network congestion control in September 2005. Topics for discussion will included buffer sizing, AQM and design of congestion avoidance techniques. A poster for the workshop is available.

The workshop was held in Physics and Chemistry Theatre (PCT) in the Science Building on NUIM's North Campus. A map of the campus is available. For further details please contact David Malone.

The program was as follows.

Tuesday 27th September
9:20 - 9:30 Introduction
9:30 - 10:20 Clean slate design of congestion control algorithms. (PDF)
Nandita Dukkipati (Stanford)
10:20 - 10:30 Address by Mark Keane (SFI)
10:30 - 11:20 Congestion Responsiveness of Internet Traffic (A fresh look at an old problem). (PPT)
Constantine Dovrolis (Georgia Tech)
11:20 - 12:10 Oscillations with TCP-like flow control in networks of queues. (PPT)
Matthew Andrews (Bell Labs)
12:10 - 12:30 Discussion
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 14:20 Controlling Packet Symmetry with Malicious Traffic. (PPT)
Jon Crowcroft (University of Cambridge)
14:20 - 15:10 Distributed Congestion Control and Related Problems in Complex Networks. (PDF)
Alexander Stolyar (Bell Labs)
15:10 - 16:00 Discussion
Chair: Nick McKeown (Stanford)
16:00 - 16:20 Tea/Coffee Break
17:15 Bus departs for Dublin
18:30 Reception in the RIA followed by public lecture by Debasis Mitra (VP Bell Labs Maths Center) (PDF)
20:30 Speakers' Banquet
Wednesday 28th September
9:00 - 9:50 Dynamics and Stability of AIMD Algorithms. (PDF)
Fabian Wirth (Hamilton Institute)
9:50 - 10:40 Fairness in MIMD Congestion Control Algorithms. (PDF)
Konstantin Avratchenkov (INRIA)
10:40 - 10:50 Stretch your legs
10:50 - 11:40 Implementing and Experimenting with XCP. (PDF)
Ted Faber (ISI)
11:40 - 12:30 Experiences with multi-path algorithms for joint routing and congestion control. (PDF)
Richard Gibbens (University of Cambridge)
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 14:20 Fair Queuing and Congestion Control. (PPT)
Jim Roberts (France Telecom)
14:20 - 15:10 Queueing theory, control theory, & buffer sizing. (PDF, More Details)
Damon Wischik (UCL)
15:10 - 16:00 Buffer Sizing for Congested Internet Links. (PPT)
Constantine Dovrolis (Georgia Tech)
16:00 Discussion/Close of workshop

The workshop was supported by SFI under grants 04/IN1/I478 and 00/PI.1/C067.

Speakers and attendees included: Matthew Andrews (Bell Labs), Konstantin Avratchenkov (INRIA), Abraham Berman (Technion), Arkaitz Bitorika (TCD), Stephen Brown (NUIM), Brian Carrig (DCU), Jon Crowcroft (Cambridge), John Cunniffe (NUIG), Constantine Dovrolis (Georgia Tech), Ian Dowse (Corvil), Linda Doyle (TCD), Nandita Dukkipati (Stanford), Ted Faber (ISI), Stephen Farrell (TCD), Richard Gibbens (Cambridge), Gerard Hartnett (Intel), Meriel Huggard (TCD), Brendan Jennings (TSSG), Chris Kellett (Hamilton Institute), Chris King (Northeastern), Doug Leith (Hamilton Institute), Tianji Li (Hamilton Institute), David Malone (Hamilton Institute), Orla McGann (HEAnet), Brian McGurk (Corvil), Nick McKeown (Stanford), Debasis Mitra (Bell Labs), Gavin Mulvihill (TCD), Anthony Ng (Hamilton Institute), Qiang Ni (Hamilton Institute), Donal O'Mahony (TCD), Niall O'Reilly (UCD), Jim Roberts (France Telecom), Mathieu Robin (TCD), Uri Rothblum (Technion), Marco Ruffini (TCD), Robert Shorten (Hamilton Institute), Rade Stanojević (Hamilton Institute), Alexander Stolyar (Bell Labs), Fabian Wirth (Hamilton Institute), and Damon Wischik (UCL).

November 03, 2005