Congestion avoidance and control
SIGCOMM '88 Symposium proceedings on Communications architectures and protocols
Random early detection gateways for congestion avoidance
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
On the self-similar nature of Ethernet traffic (extended version)
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Wide area traffic: the failure of Poisson modeling
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
The Legion vision of a worldwide virtual computer
Communications of the ACM
The grid: blueprint for a new computing infrastructure
The grid: blueprint for a new computing infrastructure
Self-similarity and heavy tails: structural modeling of network traffic
A practical guide to heavy tails
On the propagation of long-range dependence in the Internet
Proceedings of the conference on Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communication
On the Burstiness of the TCP Congestion-Control Mechanism in a Distributed Computing System
ICDCS '00 Proceedings of the The 20th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems ( ICDCS 2000)
On the relationship between file sizes, transport protocols, and self-similar network traffic
ICNP '96 Proceedings of the 1996 International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP '96)
The Adverse Impact of the TCP Congestion-Control Mechanism in Heterogeneous Computing Systems
ICPP '00 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 2000 International Conference on Parallel Processing
TCP Vegas: end to end congestion avoidance on a global Internet
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
On the autocorrelation structure of TCP traffic
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking - Special issue: Advances in modeling and engineering of Longe-Range dependent traffic
On the autocorrelation structure of TCP traffic
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking - Special issue: Advances in modeling and engineering of Longe-Range dependent traffic
Packet Spacing: An Enabling Mechanism for Delivering Multimedia Content in Computational Grids
The Journal of Supercomputing
The MAGNeT Toolkit: Design, Implementation and Evaluation
The Journal of Supercomputing
High Performance Wide Area Data Transfers over High Performance Networks
IPDPS '02 Proceedings of the 16th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
The End-to-End Performance Effects of Parallel TCP Sockets on a Lossy Wide-Area Network
IPDPS '02 Proceedings of the 16th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
PIHSN '02 Proceedings of the 7th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Protocols for High Speed Networks
An Evaluation of Object-Based Data Transfers on High Performance Networks
HPDC '02 Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing
The Effects of Inter-Packet Spacing on the Delivery of Multimedia Content
ICDCS '01 Proceedings of the The 21st International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
Future Generation Computer Systems - iGrid 2002
Experiences in Design and Implementation of a High Performance Transport Protocol
Proceedings of the 2004 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
Teraflows over Gigabit WANs with UDT
Future Generation Computer Systems - Special issue: High-speed networks and services for data-intensive grids: The DataTAG project
On TCP and self-similar traffic
Performance Evaluation - Long range dependence and heavy tail distributions
SC '05 Proceedings of the 2005 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
Supporting Configurable Congestion Control in Data Transport Services
SC '05 Proceedings of the 2005 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
End-system aware, rate-adaptive protocol for network transport in LambdaGrid environments
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
Enabling PVM to exploit the SCTP protocol
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
Capturing network traffic with a MAGNeT
ALS '01 Proceedings of the 5th annual Linux Showcase & Conference - Volume 5
Fast retransmit and fast recovery schemes of transport protocols: A survey and taxonomy
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
A survey-based study of grid traffic
Proceedings of the first international conference on Networks for grid applications
SpringSim '07 Proceedings of the 2007 spring simulaiton multiconference - Volume 1
Teraflows over Gigabit WANs with UDT
Future Generation Computer Systems - Special issue: High-speed networks and services for data-intensive grids: The DataTAG project
CODE TCP: A competitive delay-based TCP
Computer Communications
Characterising a grid site's traffic
Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing
RoVegas: a router-based congestion avoidance mechanism for TCP Vegas
Computer Communications
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Distributed computational grids depend on TCP to ensure reliable end-to-end communication between nodes across the wide-area network (WAN). Unfortunately, TCP performance can be abysmal even when buffers on the end hosts are manually optimized. Recent studies blame the self-similar nature of aggregate network traffic for TCP's poor performance because such traffic is not readily amenable to statistical multiplexing in the Internet, and hence computational grids. In this paper, we identify a source of self-similarity previously ignored, a source that is readily controllable-TCP. Via an experimental study, we examine the effects of the TCP stack on network traffic using different implementations of TCP. We show that even when aggregate application traffic ought to smooth out as more applications' traffic are multiplexed, TCP induces burstiness into the aggregate traffic load, thus adversely impacting network performance. Furthermore, our results indicate that TCP performance will worsen as WAN speeds continue to increase.