Aggarwal et al (2000) Understanding the Performance of TCP Pacing (INFOCOM)
A paper to investigate the pros and cons of TCP pacing.
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ns3: Touching a header in the middle of a packet
A trick from http://matinrad.com/index.php/2010/08/how-to-find-a-packet-header-in-ns-3/
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Zheng & Qiao (2011) An Effective Approach to Preventing TCP Incast Throughput Collapse for Data Center Networks (GLOBECOM)
This paper proposes an application-layer control on the number of concurrent
senders in an incast application. The ideal number of concurrent senders is
computed using the SRU, RTT and bottleneck buffer size. The paper assumes these
parameters are available to the incast application.
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Ford et al (2011) TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple Addresses (Internet Draft)
The internet draft of MPTCP. MPTCP is a layer above TCP, so that the data stream from application is delivered by multiple TCP streams at the transport layer. The MPTCP layer is to merge the TCP streams into one stream, and deliver it to the application.
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MagSafe repair
This is the fourth MagSafe adapter for my 2008 MacBook Pro. Basically I keep failing the adapter once a year. The original one has the cable broken near the brick (yes, the loose strand problem), I fixed it in an ugly way; then I ordered a second one in a...
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