News

2008

• Prof. Steven Low is returning full-time to Caltech in April 2008, after founding FastSoft Inc., with Netlab colleague Cheng Jin.
• Prof. Steven Low is named IEEE Fellow, effective 2008, for contributions to internet congestion control.

2007

• High Energy Physicists Set New Record for Network Data Transfer
  Caltech Press Release Nov 29, 2007.
  Harvey Newman, (HEP, Caltech), Prof. Steven Low, (Netlab, Caltech) and collaborators continue to set records on fast large long distance data transfers, using FAST TCP.
• Prof. Steven Low and FAST TCP are mentioned in Discover magazine article based on an interview with fellow Caltech collaborator Prof. John Doyle.
• TCP evaluation: Round Table Discussion held at Caltech, sponsored by WAN-in-Lab on Nov 8-9, 2007. Researchers from groups around the world, discuss benchmarking parameters for TCP protocols.
• Authors at Caltech and Netlab receive the best paper award at MASS conference Oct 2007.
• Ao (Kevin) Tang is awarded the 2007 Charles Wiltz Doctoral Prize for "outstanding independant research" leading to a PhD in Electrical Engineering at Caltech.
• Netlab's PhD graduates graduated in 2007.
• FastSoft Inc., launches its product FastSoft Aria, whose technology was inspired by Netlab research.
• PFLDnet2007 workshop in February 2007 at ISI (USC) in Marina Del Rey, LA is co-chaired by Lachlan Andrew of Netlab.

2006

• Ao (Kevin) Tang wins the 2006 George Dantzig Award for best doctoral dessertation in operations research and management sciences. His thesis was titled "Heterogenous Congestion Control Protocol". This prestigous first prize from INFORMS was presented at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, November 2006.
• Lijun Chen runs course in Fall 2006: CDS270 Optimization, Game and Layering in Communications Networks.

FAST:

• FastSoft Inc., formed in 2005 - a new technology start-up inspired by FAST TCP research at Netlab.

Other:

• Over summer, Lun Li worked at Microsoft, Redmond, WA and Cheng Hu worked at JPL.
• Netlab website is renovated and WiL website updated in 2006.
  The 2002 Netlab website was initially published by Dawn Choe.
  WiL website initially launched in 2005 by Eddie Tsai.
• Netlab's first PhD graduates graduated in 2006.

2005

FAST:

• Bandwidth Challenge Winner SC2005:
  [ Details, Team led by Caltech, Contributors]
  Press Press release by Ultralight at Caltech, 2005
  Collaborations between Netlab and Ultralight at Caltech with other research institutions around the world, to win Bandwidth Challenge in 2005.
• World Network Speed Record Shattered for Third Consecutive Year..
  Caltech press release, December 2005:
  Netlab and Ultralight at Caltech were part of the team that won the Bandwidth challenge again, at the Super computing conference (SC05) at Seattle Washington, November 2005.

FAST and WAN-in-Lab:

• Caltech and Cisco Team to Advance Development of FAST Network.
  Caltech press release, September 2005:
  Outlines the building of WAN-in-Lab (WiL), a Netlab project, to further FAST TCP experimental research. The WiL concept was conceived by Professor Steven H Low, designed by ?....and Cisco in Sydney Australia. WiL hardware was initially assembled by George S Lee and colleagues.

2004

FAST:

• Internet Speed Quadrupled by International Team During 2004 Bandwidth Challenge.
  Caltech press release, November 2004:
  Netlab and Ultralight at Caltech were part of the team that won the Bandwidth challenge again, at the Super computing conference (SC04) in Pittsburgh.

Other:

• Lun Li wins Best Student Paper Award from ACM SIGCOMM. Her paper was titled "A first principled approach to understanding the internet's router level topology" and was co-authored by D. Alderson, W. Wilinger, & J. Doyle

2003

Various Press Releases on FAST 2003

More Press on FAST 2003:

• "Today's Internet is Just a Parking Lot: New algorithms pave the way for real superhighway-Steven Low and the FAST team," Research note p10-11, ENGenious, Fall 2003, EAS at Caltech.
• Lower Networks for Fast Data Rates
  in Engineering & Science, Caltech, Vol LX, Number 1, 2003
• Caltech, SLAC, and LANL Set New Network Performance Marks.
  Caltech press release, December 2003:
  Netlab and Ultralight at Caltech were part of the team that won the Bandwidth challenge, at the Super computing conference (SC03) in Phoenix, Arizona.