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Recent Papers

Cross-layer Optimization in TCP/IP Networks
J. Wang, L. Li, S. H. Low and J. C. Doyle
IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking, 13(3):582-268, June 2005

Stabilized Vegas
D. H. Choe and S. H. Low
in Advances in Communication Control Networks, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences , Vol. 308, Tarbouriech, Sophie; Abdallah, Chaouki; Chiasson, John (Eds.), Springer Press, 2004

A First-Principles Approach to Understanding the Internet's Router-level Topology
L. Li, D. Alderson, W. Willinger and J. C. Doyle
Proceedings of ACM Sigcomm, Portland, OR, August 2004
Winner of Best Student Paper Award

Congestion control for high performance, stability and fairness in general networks
F. Paganini, Z. Wang, J. C. Doyle and S. H. Low
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 13(1):43-56, February 2005

Understanding CHOKe: throughput and spatial characteristics
A. Tang, J. Wang and S. H. Low
IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking, 12(4):694--707, August, 2004

FAST TCP: motivation, architecture, algorithms, performance
[full, 1.3MB]: David X. Wei, Cheng Jin, Steven H. Low, Sanjay Hegde. IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking, to appear in 2007
[short, 2MB] Cheng Jin, David X. Wei and Steven H. Low. IEEE Infocom, Hong Kong, March 2004
[full, 2.5MB] Cheng Jin, David X. Wei and Steven H. Low. Caltech CS Report CaltechCSTR:2003:010, December 2003

Network Equilibrium of heterogeneous congestion control protocols
Ao Tang, Jiantao Wang, Steven H. Low and Mung Chiang
IEEE Infocom, Miami, FL, March 2005
[full]: Equilibrium of heterogeneous congestion control protocols, submitted for publication, April 2005

Modeling and stability of FAST TCP
Jiantao Wang, David X. Wei and Steven H. Low
IEEE Infocom, Miami, FL, March 2005

Joint congestion control and media access control design for wireless ad hoc networks
Lijun Chen, Steven H. Low and John C. Doyle
IEEE Infocom, Miami, FL, March 2005

Understanding XCP: equilibrium and fairness
Steven H. Low, Lachlan L. H. Andrew and Bartek P. Wydrowski
IEEE Infocom, Miami, FL, March 2005
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Presentation: Internet protocols
Fairness-efficiency tradeoff, capacity and throughput in general networks; TCP/IP interactions, equilibrium, routing stability, and utility maximization. 2004
Infocom 2005 Tutorial (with Mung Chiang, Princeton): Optimization and control of communication networks (1.9MB)
Convex optimization, TCP, NUM extensions, protocol decomposition, physical layer application, etc

Complete list of publications at FAST Publications.