ICCRG

Welcome to the ICCRG Wiki page (the official IRTF ICCRG page with charter etc. is here, and some more information can be found at http://nrg.cs.ucl.ac.uk/mjh/iccrg/).

Meetings

Future meetings:

* [IETF-73 http://www.ietf.org/meetings/73/] in Minneapolis, 16-21 November 2008.

Past meetings:

* IETF-71 in Philadelphia in March 2008. https://www3.ietf.org/proceedings/08mar/iccrg.html

* Manchester, GB, on 5 March 2008, co-located with Pfldnet 2008 (which contains some information regarding logistics). Here is the agenda, and here are some details about logistics and streaming.

* IETF-69 in Chicago in July 2007. Slides, archived audio (should be channel 8, Tuesday afternoon according to this page). See the IETF meeting agenda for the exact date, time, and room.

* ISI, Marina Del Rey (Los Angeles), California, co-located with Pfldnet 2007, on 12/13 February 2007.
Agenda ... Logistics

RG Documents

M. Welzl, W. Eddy, "Congestion Control in the RFC Series", http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-irtf-iccrg-cc-rfcs-05.txt, July 2008.

M. Welzl, D. Papadimitriou, M. Scharf, B. Briscoe, "Open Research Issues in Internet Congestion Control". draft-irtf-iccrg-welzl-congestion-control-open-research-02.txt, August 2008.

Evaluation of Proposed Experimental Congestion Control Schemes

How the ICCRG intends to assist the IETF is explained in a draft ION.

The procedure is:

(1) The authors submit an independent I-D.

(2) The authors explicitly tell the TCPM WG and the TCPM co-chairs [*]

that they'd like their I-D to become a work item and eventually an experimental RFC.

[*] Could perhaps be TSVWG if this is not a TCP scheme (e.g., XCP).

(3) The TCPM co-chairs send an email to the ICCRG co-chairs requesting

that the ICCRG perform a safety review of the document.

(4) The ICCRG chairs mobilize the RG in whatever way they deem useful,

get the reviews and return them to TCPM at the end of some review period.

Current proposals

Compound TCP

CUBIC

HTCP

Design Teams

We currently have one design team - it is on "Slow Start" (details to be announced), and led by Dirceu Cavendish. To join its mailing list, send an email to iccrg-slowstart-ctl@ndrc.kyutech.ac.jp with "subscribe YOUR NAME".

Relevant Documents in Related Groups

* Specifying New Congestion Control Algorithms (RFC 5033)

* Metrics for the Evaluation of Congestion Control Mechanisms (RFC 5166)

* UDP Usage Guidelines for Application Designers

* Please send other documents that need to be included to the RG chairs!

A Congestion Control Bibliography

This is a collection of links to congestion control overviews - a bibliography, or some sort of an "overview of overviews".

Web pages:

* http://www.ecse.rpi.edu/Homepages/shivkuma/research/cong-papers.html

* http://www.lancs.ac.uk/postgrad/dendrino/Resources/Online%20Resources.html

* http://www.welzl.at/congestion/

* http://web.it.kth.se/~haritak/project/default.html

* The (quite old) PSC page on TCP-friendly cc

* Sally Floyd's page on Global Optimization with End-to-End Congestion Control

* Sally Floyd's page on "Changes proposed to TCP"

* http://kb.pert.geant2.net/cgi-bin/twiki/view/PERTKB/TransmissionControlProtocol

Published material:

* GGF GFD.55

* Cisco IPJ vol.9 no. 2 article on Gigabit TCP

ICCRG-related efforts

* The Internet2 Bulk Transport Working Group has written a document called Design Space for a Bulk Transport Tool