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2008

Congestion Control: FAST TCP

Window Flow Control: Macroscopic Properties from Microscopic Factors
Ao Tang, Lachlan L. H. Andrew, Krister Jacobsson, Karl H. Johansson, Steven H. Low and Håken Hjalmarsson.
in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, Phoenix, AZ, 15-17 Apr 2008 (559k). bibtex

An Improved Link Model for Window Flow Control and Its Application to FAST TCP
Krister Jacobsson, Lachlan L. H. Andrew, Ao Tang, Steven H. Low and Håken Hjalmarsson.
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2008 (1.21M). bibtex

Congestion Control

ACK-Clocking Dynamics: Modelling the Interaction between Windows and the Network
Krister Jacobsson, Lachlan L. H. Andrew, Ao Tang, Karl H. Johansson, Steven H. Low and Håken Hjalmarsson.
in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM Minisymposium, Phoenix, AZ, 15-17 Apr 2008 (159k). bibtex

Active Queue Management For Fair Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks
Lachlan L. H. Andrew, Stephen V. Hanly and Rami G. Mukhtar.
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 7(2):231-246, Feb 2008 (246k). bibtex
(also overlaps with topics: Resource Allocation and Wireless Networks)

Experimental Evaluation of Delay/Loss-based TCP congestion Control Algorithms
Douglas Leith, Lachlan L. H. Andrew, Tom Quetchenbach and Robert N. Shorten.
in Int'l Workshop on Protocols for Fast, Long Distance Networks (PFLDnet), Manchester, UK, 6-7 Mar 2008 (1.14M). bibtex

Towards a Common TCP Evauation Suite
Lachlan L. H. Andrew, Cesar Marcondes, Sally Floyd, Lawrence Dunn, Romeric Guillier, Wang Gang, Lars Eggert, Sangtae Ha and Injong Rhee.
in Int'l Workshop on Protocols for Fast, Long Distance Networks (PFLDnet), Manchester, UK, 6-7 Mar 2008 (254k). bibtex

Game theory for heterogeneous flow control
Ao Tang and Lachlan L. H. Andrew.
in Proceedings of Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), Princeton, NJ, 19-21 Mar 2008. bibtex

Wireless Networks

Energy Efficient Opportunistic Network Coding for Wireless Networks
T. Cui, L. Chen and T. Ho.
in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, Phoenix, AZ, 15-17 Apr 2008 (502k). bibtex

Sizes of Minimum Connected Dominating Sets of a Class of Wireless Sensor Networks
Ji Li, Chuan H. Foh, Lachlan L. H. Andrew and Moshe Zukerman.
in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Beijing, China, 19-23 May 2008. bibtex

Other

Progress on Pricing with Peering
Eui-woong Lee, David Buchfuhrer, Lachlan L. H. Andrew, Ao Tang and Steven H. Low.
in Proceedings of Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), Princeton, NJ, 19-21 Mar 2008 (110k). bibtex
(invited)

To be fair or efficient or a bit of both
Moshe Zukerman, Musa Mammadov, Liansheng Tan, Iradj Ouveysi and Lachlan Andrew.
Computers and Operations Research, 35(12):3787-3806, Dec 2008 (259k). bibtex

2007

Congestion Control: FAST TCP

An Accurate Link Model and Its Application to Stability Analysis of FAST TCP
Ao Tang, Krister Jacobsson, Lachlan L. H. Andrew and Steven H. Low.
in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, pp. 161-169. Anchorage, Alaska, 6-12 May 2007 (540k). bibtex

Congestion Control

Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Congestion Control: Existence and Uniqueness
Ao Tang, Jintao Wang, Steven H. Low and M. Chiang.
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), 15(4):824-837, Oct 2007 (465k). bibtex

Global Finite-Time Convergence of TCP Vegas without Feedback Information Delay
Joon-Young Choi, Kyungmo Koo, Jin .S Lee and Steven H. Low.
International Journal of Control, Automation and Systems, Feb 2007 (874k). bibtex

Reverse Engineering TCP/IP-like Networks using Delay-Sensitive Utility Functions
John Pongsajapan and Steven H. Low.
in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, pp. 418-426. Anchorage, Alaska, 6-12 May 2007 (133k). bibtex

Wireless Networks

Opportunistic Source Coding for Data Gathering in Wireless Sensor Networks
Tao Cui, Lijun Chen, Tracey Ho, Steven H. Low and Lachlan L. H. Andrew.
in Proceedings of IEEE Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), Pisa, Italy, 8-11 Oct 2007 (206K). bibtex
(best paper award)

A Game-Theoretic Model for Medium Access Control
L. Chen, T. Cui, S. H. Low and J. C. Doyle.
in Proceedings of International Wireless Internet Conference (WICON), Austin, TX, Oct 2007 (170k). bibtex
(invited)

Other

WAN-in-lab: Motivation, Deployment and Experiments
George S. Lee, Lachlan L. H. Andrew, Ao Tang and Steven H. Low.
in Int'l Workshop on Protocols for Fast, Long Distance Networks (PFLDnet), pp. 85-90. Marina Del Rey, CA, 7-9 Feb 2007 (478K). bibtex

Optimization Based Rate Control for Multi-cast with Network Coding
Lijun Chen, Tracey Ho, Steven H. Low, Mung Chiang and John C. Doyle.
in Proceedings of IEEE Infocom, pp. 1163 - 1171. Anchorage, Alaska, 6-12 May 2007 (190k). bibtex

Pricing in the Presence of Peering
Eui-woong Lee, David Buchfuhrer, Lachlan L. H. Andrew, Ao Tang and Steven H. Low.
in Proceedings of Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, Urbana-Champaign, IL, 26-28 Sept 2007 (333k). bibtex

Asynchronous distributed averaging on communication networks
Mortada Mehyar, Demetri Spanos, John Pongsajapan, Steven H. Low and Richard M. Murray.
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), 15(3):512-520, Aug 2007 (149k). bibtex

Layering as optimization decomposition:A Mathematical Theory of Network Architectures
Mung Chiang, Steven H. Low, A. Robert Calderbank and John C. Doyle.
in Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 95 pp. 255-312. Jan 2007 (810k). bibtex

Reverse-Engineering MAC: A Non-Cooperative Game Model
Jang-Won Lee, Ao Tang, Jianwei Huang, Mung Chiang and A. Robert Calderbank.
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (Special issue on Non-Cooperative Behavior in Networking), 2007 (810k). bibtex

Contention Control: A Game-theoretic Approach
L. Chen, S. H. Low and J. C. Doyle.
in Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), New Orleans, LA, 12-14 Dec 2007 (168k). bibtex
(invited)

Diversity of graphs with high variable connectivity
David Alderson and Lun Li.
Physical Review E (Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics), 75:046102, April 2007 (1.84M). bibtex

Dual scheduling algorithm in a generalized switch: asymptotic optimality and throughput optimality
L. Chen, S. H. Low and J. C. Doyle.
in High-Performance Packet Switching Architectures
Itamar Elhanany and Mounir Hamdi (eds.), Springer, 2007 (147k). bibtex

2006

Congestion Control: FAST TCP

FAST TCP: motivation, architecture, algorithms, performance
David X. Wei, Cheng Jin, Steven H. Low and Sanjay Hegde.
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), 14(6):1246-1259, Dec 2006 (1.4MB). bibtex

Modeling and stability of FAST TCP
(invited)
J. Wang, D. X. Wei, J-Y. Choi and S. H. Low.
in IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications, Volume 143: Wireless Communications
Prathima Agrawal, Matthew Andrews, Philip J. Fleming, George Yin, and Lisa Zhang (eds.), Springer Science, 2006 (316k). bibtex

Global exponential stability of FAST TCP
Joon-Young Choi, Kyungmo Koo, David X. Wei, Jin S. Lee and Steven H. Low.
in Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), pp. 639-643. San Diego, CA, 13-15 Dec 2006 (159k). bibtex

Linear stability analysis of FAST TCP using a new accurate link model
Ao Tang, Krister Jacobsson, Lachlan L. H. Andrew and S. H. Low.
in Proceedings of Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, Monticello, IL, Sept 2006 (207k). bibtex

Congestion Control

Counter-intuitive throughput behaviors in networks under end-to-end Control
A. Tang, J. Wang and S. Low.
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), 14(2):355-368, Apr 2006 (520k). bibtex

Heterogeneous Congestion Control: Efficiency, Fairness and Design
Ao Tang, David Wei, Steven H. Low and Mung Chiang.
in Proceedings of IEEE Int'l Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), pp. 127-136. Santa Barbara, CA, 12-15 Nov 2006 (801k). bibtex

Heterogeneous Congestion Control (invited)
Ao Tang, David Wei, Steven H. Low and Mung Chiang.
in Proceedings of Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, Monticello, IL, Sept 2006 (801k). bibtex

NS-2 TCP-Linux: A TCP implementation in NS-2 with Congestion Control Algorithms from Linux Kernels
David Wei and Pei Cao.
in Proceedings of WNS2'06, Pisa, Italy, 10 Oct 2006 (239k). bibtex

Grid networks and TCP services, protocols, and technologies
B. Wydrowski, S. Hegde, M. Suchara, R. Witt and S. H. Low.
in Grid Networks: Enabling Grids with Advanced Communication Technology
F. Travostino, J. Mambretti, G. Karmous-Edwards (eds.), John Wiley and Sons, May 2006. bibtex

Application-Oriented Flow Control: Fundamentals, Algorithms and Fairness
W-H Wang, M Palaniswami and S H Low.
IEEE/ACM Transaction on Networking, 14(6):1282-1291, Dec 2006 (544k). bibtex

Wireless Networks

Cross-layer congestion control, routing and scheduling design in ad hoc wireless networks
L. Chen, S. H. Low, M. Chiang and J. C. Doyle.
in IEEE Infocom, pp. 1-13. Barcelona, Spain, Apr 2006 (431k). bibtex

Meeting Connectivity Requirements in a Wireless Multihop Network
Ji Li, Lachlan L. H. Andrew, Moshe Zukerman, Chuan H. Foh and Marcel Neuts.
IEEE Communications Letters, 10(1):19-21, Jan 2006 (252k). bibtex

Price-based Max-Min Fair Rate Allocation in Wireless Multi-hop Networks
Liansheng Tan, XiaoMei Zhang, Lachlan L. H. Andrew and Moshe Zukerman.
IEEE Communications Letters, 10(1):31-33, Jan 2006 (183k). bibtex

Reverse Engineering MAC
Ao Tang, Jang-Won Lee, Jianwei Huang, Mung Chiang and A. Robert Calderbank.
in Proceedings of WiOpt (Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks), pp. 1-11. Boston, MA, 3-6 Apr 2006 (218k). bibtex

Optimal superimposed pilot training for OFDM channel estimation
Angiras R. Varma, Chandra Athaudage, Lachlan L. H. Andrew and Jonathan H. Manton.
in Proceedings of Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), Jul 2006 (111k). bibtex

Resource Allocation

Stochastic stability under fair bandwidth allocation: General file size distribution
Mung Chiang, Devavrat Shah and Ao Tang.
in Proceedings of Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, Monticello, IL, Sept 2006 (192k). bibtex
(invited)

Bandwidth allocation for networks with heterogeneous congestion control protocols
A. K. Tang, D. X. Wei, S. H. Low and M. Chiang.
in Proceedings of IEEE Int'l Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), Oct 2006. bibtex

Distributed Resource Allocation for Stream Data Processing
Ao Tang, Zhen Liu, Cathy Xia and Li Zhang.
in Proceedings of HPCC (Int'l Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications), Munich, Germany, Sept 2006 (139k). bibtex

Other

Layering as Optimization Decomposition:Current Status and Open Issues
M. Chiang, S. H. Low, A. R. Calderbank and J. C. Doyle.
in Proceedings of 40th CISS, Princeton, NJ, Mar 2006. bibtex

Layering as Optimization Decomposition:Questions and Answers
Mung Chiang, Steven H. Low, A. R. Calderbank and John C. Doyle.
in Proceedings of MILCOM (Military Communications Conference), pp. 1-10. 23-25 Oct 2006. bibtex

The Motivation, Architecture and Demonstration of the UltraLight Network Testbed
H. Newman, J. Bunn, D. Bourilkov, R. Cavanaugh, I. Legrand, S. Low, S. McKee, D. Nae, S. Ravot, C. Steenberg, X. Su, M. Thomas, F. van Lingen and Y. Xia.
in Proceedings of CESNET, Prague, Czech Republic, 6-8 Mar 2006 (2.51MB). bibtex

Towards a Theory of Scale-Free Graphs: Definition, properties, and Implications
L. Li, J. C. Doyle and W.Willinger.
Internet Mathematics, 2(4):431-523, Mar 2006 (1.19M). bibtex

The Optimization-based Approach to Modeling Internet Topology
D. Alderson, W. Willinger, L. Li and J. C. Doyle.
in Telecommunications planning- Innovations in Pricing, Network Design and Management.
S. Raghavan and G. Anandlingham (eds.), vol. 33. Springer, 2006 (713k). bibtex

Discovering Dependencies for Network Management
Victor Bahl, Paul Barham, Richard Black, Ranveer Chandra, Moises Goldszmidt and Rebecca Isaacs, Srikanth Kandula, Lun Li, John MacCormick, David A. Maltz, Richard Mortier, Mike Wawrzoniak and Ming Zhang.
in Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM HotNets (HOt Topics in Networks), Pisa, Italy, 11-15 Sept 2006 (119k). bibtex

Automatic Laser Shutdown Implications for All Optical Data Networks
Kerry Hinton, Peter Farrell, Andrew Zalesky, Lachlan Andrew and Moshe Zukerman.
IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, 24(2):674-680, Feb 2006 (208k). bibtex

Phase noise compensation for OFDM WLAN systems using superimposed pilots
Angiras R. Varma, Chandra Athaudage, Lachlan L. H. Andrew and Jonathan H. Manton.
in Proceedings of IEEE Conference Communication Systems, pp. 1-5. Singapore, Oct 2006 (167k). bibtex

Joint Allocation of Subcarriers and Transmit Powers in a Multiuser OFDM Cellular Network
Thaya Thanabalasingham, Stephen V. Hanly, Lachlan L. H. Andrew and John Papandriopoulos.
in Proceedings of IEEE Int'l Conference Communication (ICC), pp. 269-274. Istanbul, Turkey, June 2006 (186k). bibtex

The Estimation Error of Adaptive Deterministic Packet Marking
Lachlan L. H. Andrew and Stephen V. Hanly.
in Proceedings of Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, Monticello, IL, Sep 2006 (122k). bibtex

Adaptive Deterministic Packet Marking
Lachlan L. H. Andrew, Stephen V. Hanly, Sammy Chan and Tony Cui.
IEEE Communications Letters, 10(11):790-792, Nov 2006 (95k). bibtex

2005

Congestion Control: FAST TCP

Equilibrium and fairness of networks shared by TCP Reno and Vegas/FAST
(invited)
Ao Tang, Jintao Wang, Sanjay Hegde and Steven H. Low.
Telecommunications Systems, special issue on High Speed Transport Protocols, 30(4):417-439, Dec 2005 (246k). bibtex

The UltraLight Project: The Network as an Integrated and Managed Resource in Grid Systems for High Energy Physics and Data Intensive Science
H. Newman, J. Bunn, R. Cavanaugh, I. Legrand, S. H. Low, S. McKee, D. Nae, S. Ravot, C. Steenberg, X. Su, M. Thomas, F. van Lingen and Y. Xia.
Computing in Science and Engineering (CiSE), Special issue on Grid Computing, 2005 (496k). bibtex

FAST TCP: From Theory to Experiments
C. Jin, D. X. Wei, S. H. Low, G. Buhrmaster, J. Bunn, D. H. Choe, R. L. A. Cottrell, J. C. Doyle, W. Feng, O. Martin, H. Newman, F. Paganini, S. Ravot and S. Singh.
IEEE Network, 19(1):4-11, Jan/Feb 2005 (638k). bibtex

Modeling and stability of FAST TCP
Jiantao Wang, David X. Wei and Steven H. Low.
in Proceedings of IEEE Infocom, vol. 2 pp. 938-948. Miami, FL, 13-17 Mar 2005 (255k). bibtex

Global Stability of FAST TCP in Single-Link Single-Source Network
J-Y. Choi, K. Koo, J. S. Lee and S. H. Low.
in Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Seville, Spain, pp. 1837-1841. 12-15 Dec 2005 (225k). bibtex

Fairness Comparison of FAST TCP and TCP Vegas
Lachlan L. H. Andrew, Liansheng Tan, Tony Cui and Moshe Zukerman.
in Proceedings of International Teletraffic Congress-19, Beijing China, 2005 (95k). bibtex

Evaluation of FAST TCP in Low-speed DOCSIS-based Access Networks
Lachlan L. H. Andrew, Irena Atov, David Kennedy and Bartek P. Wydrowski.
in Proceedings of IEEE Tencon, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 1-6. Nov 2005 (175k). bibtex

Congestion Control

Network equilibrium of heterogeneous congestion control protocols
A. Tang, J. Wang, S. H. Low and M. Chiang.
in Proceedings of IEEE Infocom, vol. 2 pp. 1338-1349. Miami, FL, 13-17 Mar 2005 (456k). bibtex

TCP MaxNet - implementation and experiments on the WAN in Lab
Martin Suchara, Ryan Witt and Bartek Wydrowski.
in Proceedings of IEEE International conference on Networks (ICON), vol. 2 pp. 6. 16-18 Nov 2005 (1.9MB). bibtex

Cross-layer optimization in TCP/IP networks
J. Wang, L. Li, S. H. Low and J. C. Doyle.
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), 13(3):582-568, Jun 2005 (409k). bibtex

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 (ToN), 13(1):43-56, Feb 2005 (444k). bibtex

Joint congestion control and media access control design for wireless ad hoc networks
Lijun Chen, Steven H. Low and John C. Doyle.
in Proceedings of IEEE Infocom, vol. 3 pp. 2212-2222. Miami, FL, 13-17 Mar 2005 (193k). bibtex

Duality-Based TCP Congestion Control with Error Analysis
(invited)
M. Mehyar, D. Spanos and S. H. Low.
in Performance Evaluation and Planning Methods for the Next Generation Internet
Andre Girard, Brunilde Sanso and Felisa Vazquez-Abad (eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Springer, 2005 (240k). bibtex

Understanding XCP: equilibrium and fairness
S. H. Low, Lachlan L. H. Andrew and Bartek P. Wydrowski.
in Proceedings of IEEE Infocom, vol. 2 pp. 1025-1036. Miami, FL, 13-17 Mar 2005 (206k). bibtex
Download simulation code (52k)

CLAMP: Active Queue Management at Wireless Access Points
Lachlan L. H. Andrew, Stephen V. Hanly and Rami G. Mukhtar.
in Proceedings European Wireless, Cyprus, 2005 (140k). bibtex

Price-based Max-Min Fair Rate Allocation in Wireless Multi-hop Networks
Liansheng Tan, XiaoMei Zhang, Lachlan L. H. Andrew and Moshe Zukerman.
in Proceedings IEEE Tencon, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 1-6. Nov 2005 (187k). bibtex

MaxNet: A More Efficient Max-min Fair Allocation Scheme
Duc Nguyen, Jidong Wang, Lachlan L. H. Andrew and Sammy Chan.
in Proceedings of International Teletraffic Congress-19, Beijing China, 2005 (214k). bibtex

Other

Understanding internet topology:: Principles, Models, and Validation
D. Alderson, L. Li, W. Willinger and J. C. Doyle.
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), 13(6), Dec 2005 (1.2MB). bibtex
Download simulation code (52k)

The "Robust Yet Fragile" Nature of the Internet
J. C. Doyle, D. Alderson, L. Li, S. H. Low, M. Roughan, S. Shalunov, R. Tanaka and W. Willinger.
in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 102(40) pp. 14123-14475. 4 Oct 2005 (635k). bibtex

Distributed averaging on asynchronous communication networks
M. Mehyar, D. Spanos, J. Pongsajapan, S. H. Low and R. M. Murray.
in Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Seville, Spain, pp. 7446-7451. 12-15 Dec 2005 (125k). bibtex

Network Overlay Construction under Limited End-to-End Reachability
Wenjie Wang, Cheng Jin and Sugih Jamin.
in Proceedings of IEEE Infocom, vol. 3 pp. 2124-2134. 13-17 Mar 2005 (2.4MB). bibtex

Optimization model of internet protocols
Steven H. Low, John Doyle, Lun Li, Ao Tang and Jiantao Wang.
in Proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS, vol. 33 pp. 1. Banff, Alberta, Canada, May-June 2005 (99k). bibtex

Towards a theory of scale-free graphs: definitions, properties, and implications
L. Li, D. Alderson, J. C. Doyle and W. Willinger.
Internet Mathematics, 2005 (909k). bibtex

2004

Congestion Control: FAST TCP

Local stability of FAST TCP
J. Wang, A. Tang and S. H. Low.
in Proceedings of Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton, NJ, Mar 2004 (99k). bibtex

Local stability of FAST TCP
Jiantao Wang, Ao Tang and Steven H. Low.
in Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), vol. 1 pp. 1023-1028. Paradise Island, Bahamas, Dec 2004 (111k). bibtex

FAST TCP in High Speed Networks: An Experimental Study
Sanjay Hegde, David Lapsley, Bartek Wydrowski, Jan Lindheim, David Wei, Cheng Jin, Steven Low and Harvey Newman.
in Proceedings of GridNets, San Jose, CA, 29 Oct 2004 (443k). bibtex

FAST TCP: motivation, architecture, algorithms, performance
C. Jin, D. X. Wei and S. H. Low.
in Proceedings of IEEE Infocom, vol. 4 pp. 2490-2501. Mar 2004 (1MB). bibtex

FAST TCP: Design, Implementation, Experiments
D. X. Wei, C. Jin and S. H. Low.
in Int'l Workshop on Protocols for Fast Long-Distance Networks (PFLDnet), Argonne, IL, Feb 2004. bibtex

Congestion Control

Stabilized Vegas
D. H. Choe and S. H. Low.
in Advances in Communication Control Networks; Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences Vol. 308
Sophie Tarbouriech, Chaouki Abdallah, John Chiasson (eds.), Springer Press, 2004 (607k). bibtex

Global stability of Vegas-like TCP flow
D. H. Choe and S. H. Low.
in Proceedings of American Control Conference, vol. 2 pp. 1679-1682. Boston, MA, Jun/Jul 2004 (512K). bibtex

A mathematical framework for designing a low-loss, low-delay Internet
S. H. Low and R. Srikant.
Networks and Spatial Economics, special issue on Crossovers between Transportation Planning and Telecommunications, 4:75-101, Mar 2004 (240k). bibtex

Analysis of TCP/AQM Protocol Models in the Form of Functional Differential Equations
A. Papachristodoulou, J. C. Doyle and Steven H. Low.
in Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), vol. 5 pp. 4684-4689. Paradise Island, Bahamas, 14-17 Dec 2004 (140k). bibtex

Understanding CHOKe: throughput and spatial characteristics
A. Tang, J. Wang and S. H. Low.
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), 12(4):694-707, Aug 2004 (318k). bibtex

Optimization flow control with estimation error
M. Mehyar, D. Spanos and S. H. Low.
in Proceedings of IEEE Infocom, vol. 2 pp. 984-992. Mar 2004 (192k). bibtex

MaxNet: Faster Flow Control Convergence
Bartek Wydrowski, Lachlan L. H. Andrew and Iven M. Y. Mareels.
in Proceedings of IFIP Intenational Conference on Networking, pp. 588-599. 2004 (293k). bibtex

Resource Allocation

Allocating commodity resources in aggregate traffic networks
N. G. Duffield and S. H. Low.
Performance Evaluation, 57(3):279-306, Jul 2004 (200k). bibtex

Is fair allocation always inefficient
A. Tang, J. Wang and S. H. Low.
in Proceedings of IEEE Infocom, vol. 1. Hong Kong, 7-11 Mar 2004 (174k). bibtex

Other

A First-principles Approach to Understanding the Internet's Router-level Topology
Lun Li, David Alderson, W. Willinger and John C. Doyle.
in Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM, Portland, OR, Aug 2004 (1.5MB). bibtex
[Winner of Best Student Paper Award]

Role of Optimization in Understanding and Modeling Internet Topology
D. Alderson, W. Willinger, L. Li and J. C. Doyle.
in Proceedings of 7th INFORMS Tele-communications Conference, Boca Raton, FL, 7-10 Mar 2004. bibtex

Methodological Frameworks for Largescale Network Analysis and Design
Antonis Papachristodoulou, Lun Li and John C. Doyle.
Computer Communication Review, 34(3), Jul 2004 (566k). bibtex

More Normal Than Normal: Scaling Distribution and Complex Systems
W. Willinger, D. Alderson, J. C. Doyle and L. Li.
in Proceedings of Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), Washington D. C., 5-8 Dec 2004 (241k). bibtex

Building Scalable Network Services: Theory and Practice
Cheng Jin, Sugih Jamin, Danny Raz and Yuval Shavitt.
Building Scalable Network Services: Theory and Practice. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004 ISBN 1-4020-7656-8. bibtex

Utility maximization, routing, fairness
(invited)
S. H. Low.
in Proceedings of International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS), Leuven, Belgium, Jul 2004. bibtex

A Pragmatic Approach to Dealing with High-variability in Network Measurements
W. Willinger, D. Alderson and L. Li.
in Proceedings of Internet Measurement Conference (ACM SIGCOMM), Scicily, Italy, 25-27 Oct 2004. bibtex

2003

Congestion Control: FAST TCP

FAST Kernel: Background Theory and Experimental Results
C. Jin, D. X. Wei, S. H. Low, G. Buhrmaster, J. Bunn, D. H. Choe, R. L. A. Cottrell, J. C. Doyle, H. Newman, F. Paganini, S. Ravot and S. Singh.
in Int'l Workshop on Protocols for Fast Long-Distance Networks (PFLDnet), CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, 3-4 Feb 2003 (431k). bibtex

Congestion Control

Linear stability of TCP/RED and a Scalable Control
S. H. Low, F. Paganini, J. Wang and J. C. Doyle.
Computer Networks Journal, 43(5):633-647, Dec 2003 (465k). bibtex

A Control Theoretical Look at Internet Congestion Control
F. Paganini, J. C. Doyle and S. H. Low.
in Multidisciplinary Research in Control: The Mohammed Dahleh Symposium 2002. Springer Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, Vol. 289
L. Giarre' and B. Bamieh (eds.), Springer-Verlag, 2003 (283k). bibtex

The case for delay-based congestion control
(invited)
C. Jin, D. X. Wei and S. H. Low.
in Proceedings of IEEE Computer Communication Workshop (CCW), pp. 99-104. Laguna Beach, CA, Oct 2003 (160k). bibtex

Maximum and Asymptotic UDP Throughput under CHOKe
J. Wang, A. Tang and S. H. Low.
in Proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS, San Diego, CA, Jun 2003 (187k). bibtex

Understanding CHOKe
A. Tang, J. Wang and S. H. Low.
in Proceedings of IEEE Infocom, vol. 1 pp. 114-124. San Francisco, CA, Mar/Apr 2003 (256k). bibtex

Can Shortest-Path Routing and TCP Maximize Utility
J. Wang, L. Li, S. H. Low and J. C. Doyle.
in Proceedings of IEEE Infocom, vol. 3 pp. 2049-2056. San Francisco, CA, Apr 2003 (157k). bibtex

Optimal flow control and routing in multi-path networks
Wei-Hua Wang, Marimuthu Palaniswami and Steven H. Low.
Performance Evaluation, 52(2-3):119-132, 2003. bibtex

Stabilized Vegas
D. H. Choe and S. H. Low.
in Proceedings of IEEE Infocom, vol. 3 pp. 2290-2300. San Francisco, CA, Mar/Apr 2003 (532k). bibtex

A Duality Model of TCP and Queue Management Algorithms
S. H. Low.
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), 11(4):525-536, Aug 2003 (652k). bibtex

A new TCP/AQM for Stable Operation In Fast Networks
F. Paganini, Z. Wang, S. H. Low and J. C. Doyle.
in Proceedings of IEEE Infocom, vol. 1 pp. 96-105. San Francisco, CA, Apr 2003 (1.4MB). bibtex

A Stabilizing AQM based on virtual queue dynamics in supporting TCP with arbitrary delays
K. Kim, A. Tang and S. Low.
in Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), vol. 4 pp. 3665-3670. Maui, HI, -12 Dec 2003 (165k). bibtex

Design of AQM in Supporting TCP Based on the Well-Known AIMD Model
K. Kim, A. Tang and S. Low.
in Proceedings of IEEE Globecom, vol. 6 pp. 3226-3230. 1-5 Dec 2003 (183k). bibtex

Analysis and design of AQM based on state-space models for stabilizing TCP
K. B. Kim and S. H. Low.
in Proceedings of American Control Conference, vol. 1 pp. 260-265. Denver, CO, 4-6 Jun 2003 (408k). bibtex

Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Optimal Flow Control in Multirate Multicast Networks
W. H. Wang, M. Palaniswami and S. H. Low.
IEE Proceedings - Communications, 150(5):385-390, 14 Oct 2003 (282k). bibtex

Resource Allocation

Is fair allocation always inefficient?
A. Tang, J. Wang and S. H. Low.
in Proceedings of Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, Monticoello, IL, Oct 2003. bibtex

Other

Robustness and the Internet: Theoretical foundations
John C. Doyle, Jean Carlson, Steven H. Low, Fernando Paganini, Glenn Vinnicombe, Walter Willinger, Jason Hickey, Pablo Parrilo and Lieven Vandenberghe.
in Robust design: a repertoire from biology, ecology, and engineering
E. Jen (eds.), Oxford University Press, 2003 (42k). bibtex

Hop-Count Filtering: An Effective Defense Against Spoofed DDoS Traffic
Cheng Jin, Haining Wang and Kang G. Shin.
in Proceedings ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Washington, DC, 2003 (356k). bibtex

Optimizing 10-Gigabit Ethernet for Networks of Workstations, Clusters, and Grids: A Case Study
Wu-chun Feng, J. G. Hurwitz, H. Newman, S. Ravot, R. Les Cottrell, O. Martin, F. Coccetti and Cheng Jin, D. X. Wei and S. Low.
in proceedings of ACM/IEEE SC03 (Supercomputing conference), pp. 50. 15-21 Nov 2003 (128k). bibtex

Grid-enabled particle physics event analysis: experiences using a 10 Gb, high-latency network for a high-energy physics application
W. Allcock, J. Bresnahan, J. Bunn, S. Hegde, J. Insley, R. Kettimuthu, H. Newman, S. Ravot, T. Rimovsky, C. Steenberg and L. Winkler.
Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), 19(6):983-997, Aug 2003 (537k). bibtex

An empirical study on the connectivity of ad hoc networks
A. Tang, C. Florens and S. H. Low.
in Proceedings of IEEE Aerospace conference, vol. 3 pp. 1333-1338. Big Sky, MT, 8-15 Mar 2003 (489k). bibtex

2002

Congestion Control: FAST TCP

A new TCP/AQM for Stability and Performance in Fast Networks
Fernando Paganini, Zhikui Wang, Steven H. Low and John C. Doyle.
in Proceedings of Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, Oct 2002 (1.36M). bibtex

Congestion Control

Internet Congestion Control
S. H. Low, F. Paganini and J. C. Doyle.
IEEE Control Systems Magazine, 22(1):28-43, Feb 2002 (225k). bibtex

Active queue management to improve TCP performance over wireless networks
V. H. Li, Z.-Q. Liu, Z.-Q. He and S. H. Low.
in Proceedings of SPIE ITCom, Boston, MA, Jul/Aug 2002. bibtex

Network flow control
(invited)
S. H. Low.
in Encyclopedia of Telecommunications
John Proakis (eds.), pp. 1625-31. Wiley, Dec 2002. bibtex

Dynamics of TCP/RED and a Scalable Control
S. H. Low, F. Paganini, J. Wang, S. Adlakha and J. C. Doyle.
in Proceedings of IEEE Infocom, vol. 1 pp. 239-248. New York, NY, 23-27 Jun 2002 (435k). bibtex

Understanding Vegas: A Duality Model
S. H. Low, Larry Peterson and Limin Wang.
Journal of ACM, 49(2):207-235, Mar 2002 (793k). bibtex

Stabilized Vegas
D. H. Choe and S. H. Low.
in Proceedings of Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, Oct 2002 (532k). bibtex

A New TCP Congestion Control with Empty Queues and Scalable Stability
F. Paganini, S. H. Low, Z. Wang, S. Athuraliya and J. C. Doyle.
2002 (243k). bibtex

Ultrascale Network Protocols for Computing and Science in the 21st Century
J. J. Bunn, J. C. Doyle, S. H. Low, H. B. Newman and S. M. Yip.
Technical report, Sep 2002 (98k). bibtex
White paper to US Department of Energy's Ultrascale Simulation for Science (USS) initiative

Optimal flow control in multirate multicast networks
W. H. Wang, M. Palaniswami and S. H. Low.
in Proceedings of Asian Control Conference, pp. 1596-1601. Singapore, Sep 2002. bibtex

Design of Receding Horizon AQM stabilizing TCP with multiple links and heterogenous delays
(invited)
K. Kim and S. H. Low.
in Proceedings of Asian Control Conference, vol. WA-1. Singapore, Sep 2002. bibtex

Congestion Control: REM

On stability of REM algorithm with uniform delay
Qinghe Yin and Steven H. Low.
in Proceedings of IEEE Globecom, Taipei, Taiwan, vol. 3 pp. 2649-2653. 17-21 Nov 2002 (179k). bibtex

A Note on Parameter Values of REM with Reno-like Algorithms
Sanjeewa Athurliya.
Mar 2002 (101k). bibtex

Resource Allocation

High density model for server allocation and placement
C. Cameron, S. H. Low and D. X. Wei.
in Proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS, pp. 152-159. Marina del Rey, CA, Jun 2002 (224k). bibtex

Other

Robustness and the Internet: Theoretical Foundations
John C. Doyle, Jean Carlson, Steven H. Low, Fernando Paganini, Glenn Vinnicombe, Walter Willinger, Jason Hickey, Pablo Parrilo and Lieven Vandenberghe.
in Robust Design: A Repertoire of Biological, Ecological, and Engineering Case
Erica Jean (eds.), Oxford University Press, Mar 2002 (43k). bibtex
ISBN 0195165322

MATE: Multi-protocol Adaptive Traffic Engineering
Anwar Elwalid, Cheng Jin, Steven H. Low and Indra Widjaja.
Engineering Computer Networks Journal, 40(6):695-709, Dec 2002 (415k). bibtex

High-density model of content distribution network
(invited)
C. Cameron, S. H. Low and David X. Wei.
in Proceedings of Information, Decision and Control Symposium (IDC), Adelaide, Australia, 11-13 Feb 2002 (82k). bibtex

2001

Congestion Control

Scalable Laws for Stable Network Congestion Control
Fernando Paganini, J. C. Doyle and S. H. Low.
in Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), vol. 1 pp. 185-190. Orlando, FL, 4-7 Dec 2001 (475k). bibtex

Flow control in networks with multiple paths
W. H. Wang, Palaniswami and S. H. Low.
in Proceedings of SPIE ITcom, Denver, CO, Aug 2001. bibtex

Understanding Vegas: A duality model
Steven Low, Larry Peterson and Limin Wang.
in Proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS, Boston, MA, 2001 (427k). bibtex

Fluid models: An empirical validation of a duality model of TCP and queue management algorithms
(invited)
S. Athuraliya and S. H. Low.
in Proceedings of Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), pp. 1269-1274. Arlington, VA, 9-12 Dec 2001 (437k). bibtex

Congestion Control: REM

Convergence of REM Flow Control at a Single Link
Qinghe Yin and Steven H. Low.
IEEE Communications Letters, 5(3):119-121, Mar 2001 (132k). bibtex

REM: Active Queue Management
S. Athuraliya, V. H. Li, Steven H. Low and Qinghe Yin.
IEEE Network, 15(3):48-53, May/Jun 2001 (169k). bibtex
Also in Proceedings of International Teletraffic Congress, Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, September 2001

Other

Active Routing
N. F. Maxemchuk and S. H. Low.
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 19(3):552-565, Mar 2001 (147k). bibtex

Linear stability of TCP/RED and a Scalable Control
(invited)
S. H. Low, F. Paganini, J. Wang, S. Adlakha and J. C. Doyle.
in Proceedings of Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, Oct 2001. bibtex

MATE: MPLS Adaptive Traffic Engineering
A. Elawid, C. Jin, S. H. Low and I. Widjaja.
in Proceedings of IEEE Infocom, vol. 3 pp. 1300-1309. Anchorage, AK, 22-26 Apr 2001 (263k). bibtex

2000

Congestion Control

A Duality Model of TCP and Queue Management Algorithms
S. H. Low.
in Proceedings of ITC Specialist Seminar on IP Traffic Measurement, Modelling and Management, Monterey, CA, 18-20 Sep 2000 (563k). bibtex

A duality theory of TCP flow controls
S. H. Low and N. F. Maxemchuk.
in Proceedings of ITC Specialist Seminar on IP Traffic Measurement, Modelling and Management, Monterey, CA, Sep 2000. bibtex

Flow control through duality
S. H. Low.
in Proceedings of IFIP Workshop on Performance Modelling and Evaluation of ATM and IP networks, Ilkley, West Yorkshire, UK, Jul 2000. bibtex

Optimization Flow Control with Newton-Like Algorithm
S. Athuraliya and S. H. Low.
Journal of Telecommunication Systems, 15(3/4):345-358, 2000 (437k). bibtex

Optimization Flow Control II: Implementation
S. Athuraliya and Steven H. Low.
Technical report, University of Melbourne, May 2000 (2.9MB). bibtex

Multipath optimization flow control
S. H. Low.
in Proceedings of IEEE International conference on Networks (ICON), pp. 39-43. Singapore, 5-8 Sep 2000. bibtex

Congestion Control: REM

Simulation comparison of RED and REM
S. Athuraliya and S. H. Low.
in Proceedings of IEEE International conference on Networks (ICON), pp. 68-72. Singapore, 5-8 Sep 2000. bibtex

Random Exponential Marking
S. Athuraliya, S. H. Low and D. Lapsley.
in Proceedings of International Workshop on Quality of future Internet Services (QofIS), Berlin, Germany, Sep 2000. bibtex

Price computation in random exponential marking (REM)
S. Athuraliya and S. H. Low.
in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communication (ICC), vol. 1 pp. 485-489. New Orleans, LA, Jun 2000 (405k). bibtex

An enhanced random exponential marking Algorithm for Internet flow control
S. Athuraliya, D. Lapsley and S. H. Low.
in Proceedings of IEEE Infocom, vol. 3 pp. 1425-1434. Israel, 26-30 Mar 2000 (764k). bibtex

Resource Allocation

Equilibrium Bandwidth and Buffer Allocations for Elastic Traffics
S. H. Low.
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), 8(3):373-383, Jun 2000 (582k). bibtex

Other

Capacity of Text Marking Channel
S. H. Low and N. F. Maxemchuk.
IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 7(12):345-347, Dec 2000 (360k). bibtex
Also in Proceedings of IEEE Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, University of Sydney, Australia, 18-20 December 2000

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