∫ntegrabℓε ∂iﬀerentiαℓs · unorganised notes, code, and writings of random topics

Dukkipati et al (2010) An Argument for Increasing TCP’s Initial Congestion Window (CCR)

May 9, 2011 paper

Traditional congestion window in TCP is set initially to 3 segments, approximately 4KB for 1500 byte MTU. This paper argues that, it is not optimal for modern time network for a number of reasons: [more]

Banner & Orda (2007) Multipath Routing Algorithms for Congestion Minimization (TON)

May 5, 2011 paper

Brief read. [more]

Benson et al (2010) Network Traffic Characteristics of Data Centers in the Wild (IMC)

April 26, 2011 paper

Extension of a previous paper. Brief read. Following are the summary from the paper’s introduction: [more]

Zhang et al (2004) Efficient TCP Connection Failover in Web Server Clusters (INFOCOM)

April 23, 2011 paper

Brief read. [more]

Removing duplicated files

April 23, 2011 blog code

Assume you have a directory or directories of files. Some of them are duplicated. You want to remove the duplicates to conserve space. This is the program in Python: [more]