[IRTF-Announce] New RG: Transport Modeling Research Group

[Aaron Falk <falk at ISI.EDU>]

ïTransport Modeling Research Group (TMRG)

Charter:

 The Transport Modeling Research Group (TMRG) is chartered to produce
 a series of documents on Models for the Evaluation of Transport
 Protocols.  The documents will include a survey of models used in
 simulations, analysis, and experiments for the evaluation of
 transport protocols.  The output of the research group will also
 include a broad set of simulation test suites, and a set of
 recommendations for test suites for experiments in test beds.  The
 goal of the work is to improve our methodologies for evaluating
 transport protocols.

 The first set of documents will consider models for the evaluation
 of congestion control mechanisms.  This work will include the
 simulation test suites and recommendations for experiments mentioned
 above.  Later documents are expected to address models for the
 evaluation of other aspects of transport protocols (e.g., connection
 establishment, security, perhaps QoS mechanisms).

 The models produced by this group will not have any formal
 relationship to the IETF standards process.  That is, this research
 group will not produce recommendations for the IETF on using
 simulation or experimental test suites to evaluate transport-related
 features for standardization.  At the same time, one intended use of
 the test suites is for comparative evaluations of different proposed
 congestion control mechanisms.

 This research group is not chartered to discuss the design of new
 congestion control mechanisms, or to discuss modifications to
 existing congestion control mechanisms, except in terms of the
 models needed for the evaluation of such mechanisms.  The group is
 also not chartered to produce evaluations of specific congestion
 control mechanisms.

Chair:

 Sally Floyd, floyd at acm.org

Mail List:

 The email list is "tmrg-interest at icsi.berkeley.edu".  You need to be
 a list member to send mail to the list. To subscribe, visit the tmrg
 mailing list page at
 "http://mailman.icsi.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/tmrg-interest";,
 or send an email to "tmrg-interest-request at icsi.berkeley.edu".  An
 archive of the email list is available at the tmrg mailing list web
 page.

Web Site:

 The web site is at "http://www.icir.org/tmrg";.

Membership:

 Membership is open to any interested parties who intend to remain
 current with the published documents and mailing list issues.  The
 group is expected to function largely through the mailing list,
 possibly without any face-to-face meetings.

Informal Note:

 A draft for a possible first document, Metrics for the Evaluation of
 Congestion Control Mechanisms, is available from
 "http://www.icir.org/floyd/papers/draft-floyd-transport-metrics-00.txt";. 
This
 document discusses various metrics used in evaluations of congestion
 control mechanisms for the Internet.


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