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The Congestion Control Research Group (CCRG) investigates research issues related to Internet networking, primarily congestion control. The CCRG is a discussion oriented group where relevant papers are chosen each week and discussed, followed by relevance to our current research projects.

The CCRG is for students at WPI. If you would like to join the group, please send email to Professor Mark Claypool.

Funding: The CCRG funding sources have included Verizon, Viasat and NSF.

People

Maryam Ataie Kachooei (WPI)
Jae Chung (Viasat)
Mark Claypool (WPI) [homepage]
Zijian Guan (WPI)
Feng Li (Viasat)
Kristi Prifti (WPI)
Daniel Quackenbush (WPI)
Xiaokun Xu (WPI)

Reading

Habtegebreil Haile, Karl-Johan Grinnemo Per Hurtig and Anna Brunstrom. "RBBR: A Receiver-driven BBR in QUIC for Low-latency in Cellular Networks", IEEE Access, ISSN: 2169-3536, February 04, 2022. Online: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9703289

Lingfeng Guo, Yan Liu, Wenzheng Yang, Yuming Zhang, and Jack Lee. "Stateful-BBR - An Enhanced TCP for Emerging High-Bandwidth Mobile Networks", In Proceedings of the 29th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Quality of Service, Virtual Conference, June 2021. Online: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9521358

A. Yu and T. A. Benson, "Dissecting Performance of Production QUIC," in Proceedings of the World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Ljubljana Slovenia, April 2021. doi: 10.1145/3442381.3450103. Online: https://cs.brown.edu/~tab/papers/QUIC_WWW21.pdf

T. Kanaya, N. Tabata, and S. Yamaguchi, "A Study on Performance of CUBIC TCP and TCP BBR in 5G Environment," in Proceedings of the IEEE 3rd 5G World Forum (5GWF), Bangalore, India, October 2020. Online: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=9221188

A. Narayanan, E. Ramadan, R. Mehta, X. Hu, Q. Liu, U. Dayalan, R. Fezeu, S. Verma, P. Ji, T. Li, F. Qian, and Z. Zhang. "Mapping and Predicting Commercial mmWave 5G Throughput", In Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Virtual Event, October 2020. Online: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3419394.3423629

S. Emara, B. Li and Y. Chen, "Eagle: Refining Congestion Control by Learning from the Experts," In Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, Toronto, ON, Canada, July 2020. Online: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9155250

Robin Marx, Tom De Decker, Peter Quax, and Wim Lamotte. "Of the Utmost Importance: Resource Prioritization in HTTP/3 over QUIC" In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST), pages 130-143, Vienna, Austria, 2019. Online: https://h3.edm.uhasselt.be/files/HTTP3_Prioritization_extended_3jul2019.pdf

B. Turkovic, F. A. Kuipers and S. Uhlig. "Interactions between Congestion Control Algorithms," In Proceedings of the Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA), Paris, France, pp. 161-168, 2019. Online: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8784674

Michael Seufert, Raimund Schatz, Nikolas Wehner, Bruno Gardlo, and Pedro Casas. "Is QUIC becoming the New TCP? On the Potential Impact of a New Protocol on Networked Multimedia QoE", In Proceedings of the leventh International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX), Berlin, Germany, June 2019. Online: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8743223

Y. Cao, A. Jain, K. Sharma, A. Balasubramanian, and A. Gandhi, "When to Use and When not to Use BBR: An Empirical Analysis and Evaluation Study," in Proceedings of the Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 130-136, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2019. Online: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3355369.3355579

R. Ware, M. K. Mukerjee, S. Seshan, and J. Sherry. "Modeling BBR's Interactions with Loss-Based Congestion Control," in Proceedings of the Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 137-143, 2019. Online: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3355369.3355604

M. Dong, T. Meng, D. Zarchy, E. Arslan, Y. Gilad, B. Godfrey, and M. Schapira. "PCC Vivace: Online-Learning Congestion Control," in Proceedings of the 15th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), Renton, WA, USA, April 2018. Online: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/nsdi18/nsdi18-dong.pdf

A. M. Kakhki, S. Jero, D. Choffnes, C. Nita-Rotaru, and A. Mislove. "Taking a Long Look at QUIC: an Approach for Rigorous Evaluation of Rapidly Evolving Transport Protocols," in Proceedings of the Internet Measurement Conference, London, United Kingdom, November 2017. Online: https://conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2017/papers/imc17-final39.pdf (Relevant tutorial: https://netdevconf.info/0x13/session.html?tutorial-QUIC)

X. Xu, Y. Jiang, T. Flach, E. Katz-Bassett, D. Choffnes, and R. Govindan. "Investigating Transparent Web Proxies in Cellular Networks", In Proceedings of the Conference on Passive and Active Network Measurement (PAM), pp. 262-276, March 2015. Online: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-15509-8_20

S. Ha and I. Rhee. "Taming the Elephants: New TCP Slow Start," Computer Networks, Vol. 55, No. 9, June 2011. Online: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2011.01.014

R. Wang, G. Pau, K. Yamada, M.Y. Sanadidi and M. Gerla. "TCP Startup Performance in Large bandwidth Delay Networks", In Proceedings of Infocom, Hong Kong, China, March 2004. Online: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1356968

Publications

Maryam Ataei Kachooei, Jae Chung, Feng Li, Benjamin Peters, and Mark Claypool. "SEARCH: Robust TCP Slow Start Performance over Satellite Networks", In Proceedings of the 48th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), Daytona Beach, FL, USA, October 1-5, 2023. Online at: https://web.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/papers/search-lcn-23/

Xiaokun Xu and Mark Claypool. "Measurement of Cloud-based Game Streaming System Response to Competing TCP Cubic or TCP BBR Flows", In Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Nice, France, October 25-27, 2022. Online at: https://web.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/papers/game-stream-imc-22/

Maryam Ataei Kachooei, Pinhan Zhao, Feng Li, Jae Won Chung, and Mark Claypool. "Fixing TCP Slow Start for Slow Fat Links", In Proceedings of the 0x16 NetDev Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, October 2022. Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/papers/tcp-best-netdev-22/

Mingxi Liu, Yongcheng Liu, Zhifei Ma, Zachary Porter, Jae Chung, Saahil Claypool, Feng Li, Jacob Tutlis, and Mark Claypool. "The Effects of a Performance Enhancing Proxy on TCP Congestion Control over a Satellite Network", In Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference (IPCCC), Austin, TX, USA, November 11th - 13th, 2022. Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/papers/sat-pep-22/

Xiaokun Xu and Mark Claypool. "Measurement of the Responses of Cloud-based Game Streaming to Network Congestion", In Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV), Athlone, Ireland, June 17, 2022. Online at: https://web.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/papers/game-stream-nossdav-22/

Pinhan Zhao, Benjamin Peters, Jae Won Chung, and Mark Claypool. "Competing TCP Congestion Control Algorithms over a Satellite Network", In Proceedings of the IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), Virtual Conference, January 8-11, 2022. Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/papers/tcp-compete-22/

Benjamin Peters, Pinhan Zhao, Jae Won Chung, and Mark Claypool. "TCP HyStart Performance over a Satellite Network", In Proceedings of the 0x15 NetDev Conference, Virtual Conference, July 2021. Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/papers/tcp-hystart-netdev-21/

Saahil Claypool, Jae Chung, and Mark Claypool. "Comparison of TCP Congestion Control Performance over a Satellite Network", In Proceedings of the Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM), Virtual Conference, April 2021. Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/papers/tcp-sat-pam-21/

Saahil Claypool, Jae Chung, and Mark Claypool. "Measurements Comparing TCP Cubic and TCP BBR over a Satellite Network", In Proceedings of the IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), Virtual Conference, January 9-12, 2021. Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/papers/bbr-cubic-sat/

Saahil Claypool, Mark Claypool, Jae Chung, and Feng Li. "Sharing but not Caring - Performance of TCP BBR and TCP CUBIC at the Network Bottleneck", In Proceedings of the 4th IARIA International Conference on Advances in Computation, Communications and Services (ACCSE), Nice, France, July 28 - August 2, 2019. Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/papers/bbr/

Mark Claypool, Feng Li, and Jae Chung. "BBR' - An Implementation of Bottleneck Bandwidth and Round-trip Time Congestion Control for ns-3", In Proceedings of the Workshop on ns-3 (WNS3), Mangalore, India, June 2018. Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/papers/bbr-prime/

Feng Li, Jae Won Chung, Xiaoxiao Jiang, and Mark Claypool. "TCP CUBIC versus BBR on the Highway", In Proceedings of the Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM), Berlin, Germany, March 2018. Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/papers/driving-bbr/