Thomas Voice, University of Cambridge

Location :

Salle de réunion du bureau TREC.
Escalier de direction
2ème étage, porte de gauche
ENS - 45 rue d'Ulm - 75005 Paris
Directions 

Abstract :

The Internet is growing exponentially in size, speed and complexity. It has
been a very long time since the network became too large to centrally manage,
and decentralised flow control algorithms must maintain network stability using
only local knowledge. Since so much about the network is unknown, general
theoretical results are very important in guiding algorithm design. In this
presentation we examine stochastic modelling techniques which can be used to
derive such results. In particular we examine the TCP variant Scalable TCP,
which has been designed to have excellent scalability properties under certain
deterministic fluid models. We find that its behaviour is also highly
attractive under our stochastic model, as the network increases in size,
topological complexity and number of users.

Host :

François Baccelli