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Satellite Related
"Progress Toward Standards for the Seamless Interoperability of Broadband Satellite Communications Networks"
(available in Acrobat format).
This paper summarizes the progress made toward standards development to achieve seamless integration and
accelerate the deployment of multimedia applications.
"Enhancing End-To-End Performance of Information Services Over Ka-Band Global Satellite Networks"
(available in Acrobat format).
This paper identifies the significant issues and requirements necessary to provide end-to-end high
performance for the delivery of information services over satellite networks.
ATM Quality of Service
M. Atiquazzaman, R. Jain, H. Bai, W. Ivancic, A. Durresi, S. Kota, M.
Goyal, V. Bharani, C. Liu, H. Su: Quality of Service for Real-Time
Applications over Next Generation Data Networks, Final Report, NAS3-2318,
Feb 2001
(available in Acrobat format)
MPEG-2 Over Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Over Satellite Quality of Service (QoS) Experiments
: Laboratory Tests (available in Post Script and
Acrobat formats)
ATM Quality of Service at 45 Mbps Using a Satellite Emulation: Laboratory Measurements (available in
Post Script and Acrobat
formats)
ATM Quality of Service Tests for Digitized Video Over ATM Over Satellite: Laboratory Tests (available in
Post Script and Acrobat
formats)
MPEG-2 Over ATM Over Satellite Quality of Service Experiments: Laboratory Tests (available in
Post Script and
Acrobat formats)
HTTP Extensions
Hans Kruse, Mark Allman, Paul Mallasch.
Network and User-Perceived Performance of
Web Page Retrievals. November, 1998.
Proceedings of the First International
Conference on Telecommunications and
Electronic Commerce (ICTEC).
Hans Kruse, Mark Allman, Jim Griner, Diepchi Tran.
HTTP Page Transfer Rates Over Geo-Stationary
Satellite Links. March 1998. Proceedings
of the Sixth International Conference on
Telecommunication Systems.
Network Emulation
Mark Allman, Adam Caldwell, Shawn
Ostermann.
ONE: The Ohio Network Emulator.
Technical Report TR-19972, Ohio University
Computer Science, August 1997.
IP Extensions
W. Ivancic, K. Leung, D. Shell, D. Stewart, T. Bell, B.
Kachmar: Applications of Mobile-ip to Space and Aeronautical Networks,
IEEE Aerospace Conference, March 2001, Document 42
(available in Acrobat format)
TCP Extensions
Mark Allman, Vern Paxson.
On Estimating End-to-End Network Path
Properties. ACM SIGCOMM, September
1999. To appear.
Craig Partridge, Tim Shepard, Robert Coulter.
BBN Technologies, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Study and Simulation of Enhancements for TCP Performance Over Noisy High Latency Links.
NASA CR-1999-209167, August 1999.
Mark Allman, Spencer Dawkins, Dan Glover,
Jim Griner, John Heidemann, Tom Henderson,
Hans Kruse, Shawn Ostermann, Keith Scott, Jeffrey Semke, Joe Touch,
Diepchi Tran.
Ongoing TCP Research Related to
Satellites, August 1999. I-D
draft-ietf-tcpsat-res-issues-10.txt.
David E. Brooks, Craig Buffinton, Dave R. Beering, Arun Welch, William D. Ivancic,
Mike Zernic, Douglas J. Hoder.
ACTS 118x Final Report High Speed TCP Interoperability Testing, July 1999.
(available in Post Script and
Acrobat formats.)
Mark Allman.
TCP Byte Counting Refinements.
ACM Computer Communication Review, 29(3), July 1999. To appear.
John Border, Markku Kojo, Jim Griner,
Gabriel Montenegro.
Performance Enhancing Proxies,
June 1999. Internet-Draft
draft-ietf-pilc-pep-00.txt.
Matt Mathis, Mark Allman.
Empirical Bulk Transfer Capacity,
June 1999. Internet-Draft
draft-ietf-ippm-btc-framework-01.txt.
David E. Brooks, Holly Gassman, Dave R. Beering, Arun Welch, Douglas J. Hoder,
William D. Ivancic.
High Speed TCP Testing, May 1999.
(available in Post Script and
Acrobat formats.)
Mark Allman, Vern
Paxson, W. Richard Stevens.
TCP Congestion Control, April, 1999. RFC 2581.
Vern Paxson, Mark Allman, Scott Dawson,
William Fenner, Jim
Griner, Ian Heavens, Kevin Lahey, Jeff
Semke, Bernie Volz.
Known TCP Implementation Problems,
March 1999. RFC 2525.
Hans Kruse, Mark Allman, Jim Griner, Shawn
Ostermann, Eric Helvey.
Satellite Network Performance Measurements
Using Simulated Multi-User Internet
Traffic. March 1999. Proceedings of the
Seventh International Conference on
Telecommunication Systems. To appear. (Note:
the postscript might not work with
ghostview, but seems to print fine. A
PDF version is also available.)
Mark Allman, Dan Glover, Luis Sanchez.
Enhancing TCP Over Satellite Channels using
Standard Mechanisms, January 1999.
RFC 2488.
Mark Allman.
On the Generation and Use of TCP
Acknowledgments. ACM Computer
Communication Review, 28(5), October, 1998.
Mark Allman, Sally Floyd, Craig Partridge.
Increasing TCP's Initial Window,
September 1998. RFC 2414.
Mark Allman, Chris Hayes, Shawn Ostermann.
An Evaluation of TCP with Larger Initial
Windows. Computer Communication
Review, 28(3), July 1998.
Brian D. Frantz, David E. Brooks, William D. Ivancic.
TTCP Recommendations for Large-Delay, Large-Bandwidth Networks. May 1998.
Daniel R. Glover and Hans Kruse.
TCP
Performance in a Geostationary Satellite
Environment, Annual Review of
Communications 1998, International
Engineering Consortium, April 1998.
Mark Allman.
Fixing Two BSD TCP Bugs. Technical
Report CR-204151, NASA Glenn Research
Center, October 1997. BSD kernel fixes will
be available soon.
William D. Ivancic. Strategy For Developing Expert-System-Based Internet Protocols (TCP/IP).
July 1997. Available in Post Script and Acrobat formats.
Miscellaneous
Wesley Eddy, Mark Allman.
Advantages of Parallel Processing and the
Effects of Communications Time.
Technical Report TM-209455, NASA Glenn Research
Center, August 1999. (Note: the postscript
might not work with ghostview, but seems to
print fine. A
PDF version is also available.)
Mark Allman, Shawn Ostermann.
FTP Security Considerations,
May 1999. RFC 2577.
Mark Allman, Shawn Ostermann, Craig Metz.
FTP Extensions for IPv6 and NATs,
September 1998. RFC 2428.
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