Alberto Castro Hinojosa (Master Assignment)

List

• 1- TCP/IP Fundamentals
• 2- Delay Measurements
• 3- Tools and Software
• 4- Find a Paper
• 5- My Documents

Notes

• A lot of changes will be frequent.

1- TCP/IP Fundamentals

• [1.1] Internetworking with TCP/IP. Volume I: Principles, Protocols and Architecture. ( Douglas E. Comer; 1995 Prentice-Hall, Inc. )
  Description: Text for an introduction to TCP/IP.
• [1.2] Improving round-trip time estimates in reliable transport protocols. ( Phil Karn, Craig Partridge; 1987 )
  Description: Retransmission ambiguity problem.

2- Delay Measurements

• [2.1] Framework for IP Performance Metrics (RFC 2330) ( V. Paxson, G. Almes, J. Mahdavi, M. Mathis; May 1998 )
  Description: Criteria for IP Performance Metrics, terminology for paths and clouds, fundamental concepts (metrics, measurement methodology, uncertainties and errors), issues related to time, methods of collecting samples...
• [2.2] A One-way Delay Metric for IPPM (RFC 2679) ( G. Almes, S. Kalidindi, M. Zekauskas; September 1999 )
  Description: Defines a metric for one-way delay of packets across Internet paths.
• [2.3] A Round-trip Delay Metric for IPPM (RFC 2681) ( G. Almes, S. Kalidindi, M. Zekauskas; September 1999 )
  Description: Defines a metric for round-trip delay of packets across Internet paths.
• [2.4] Passive Estimation of TCP Round-Trip Times ( Hao Jiang, Constantinos Dovrolis; July 2002 )
  Description: Estimation of the Round-Trip Times (RTTs) of the TCP connections that go through a network link, using passive measurements at that link.
• [2.5] Variability in TCP Roundtrip Times ( Jay Aikat, Jasleen Kaur, F. Donelson Smith, Kevin Jeffay; 2003 )
  Description: How does round-trip delay vary within TCP connections in the Internet?
• [2.6] Passive Traffic Measurement for IP Operations ( Matthias Grossglauser, Jennifer Rexford )
  Description: Passive Measurements.
• [2.7] Challenges and Lessons Learned in Measuring Path RTT for Proximity-based Applications ( Zhiheng Wang, Amgad Zeitoun, Sugih Jamin; 2003 )
  Description: Appropriate number of probes and the required frequency to capture the minimum RTT of a path.
• [2.8] Performance monitoring of IP based networks (Tamás Varga; 1998)
  Description: Performance measurements.
• [2.9] Towards Improving Packet Probing Techniques ( Matthew J. Luckie, Anthony J. McGregor, Hans-Werner Braun; 2001 )
  Description: The limitations of existing packet probing techniques. The IPMP protocol.
• [2.10] Measurements and Analysis of End-to-End Internet Dynamics ( Vern Paxson ; 1997)
  Description: Accurately characterizing end-to-end Internet dynamics.

3- Tools and Software

• [3.1] Ethereal, network protocol analyzer.
• [3.2] WinPcap, packet capture library for Windows.
• [3.3] WinPcap Documentation, C/C++ programs.
• [3.4] M2C Measurement Data Repository.
• [3.5] Tcptrace, tool for analysis of TCP dump files.

4- Find a Paper

• [4.1] Scholar Google, searcher.
• [4.2] The ACM Portal, computing literature.
• [4.3] Search IEEE.
• [4.4] Cisco Search.
• [4.5] NLANR, Measurement and Network Analysis Group Published Papers.
• [4.6] IPPM, IP Permormance Metrics.
• [4.7] CiteSeer, Scientific Literature Digital Library .
• [4.8] SpringerLink , electronic data source from Springer for researchers in biomedicine, life science, clinical medicine, physics, engineering, mathematics, computer science, humanities, and economics.
• [4.9] ITU-T, ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T).
• [4.10] ITPapers, library of technical IT white papers, webcasts, and case studies.

5- My Documents

• [5.1] Presentation 12-05-2005 (ppt)
  Description: My first Power Point Presentation about my project.
• [5.2] Medida del Retardo en Redes IP (pdf)
  Description: Delay Measurements in IP Networks (Spanish).
• [5.3] Final Presentation 27-09-2005 (ppt)
  Description: My last Power Point Presentation about my project.