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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'd like to report on a measurement
study regarding the stability of various TCP variant protocols.
Although we can find quite a bit of work on fairness and convergence
of protocols (including some theoretical studies on the topic as well),
there is relatively little work on measuring the stability of protocols and its
impact on protocol performance and overall health of the networks (e.g., the
overall queue fluctions and link utilization). We
have measured the degree of rate oscillation and fluctuation of
protocols to have some understanding of protocol stability. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>We would like to share our results with you to get
some feedback from the community. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>We have some theoretical results and also
experimental results. Here is the link to the experimental results. You can find
links to all of our experimental data that include results from several hundred
experiments.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="http://netsrv.csc.ncsu.edu/convex-ordering/">http://netsrv.csc.ncsu.edu/convex-ordering/</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If you need our report on theoretical
results, we can e-mail you the report.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Injong Rhee</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>