Early Retransmit

After many years our Early Retransmit specification is now an RFC.

• Mark Allman, Konstantin Avrachenkov, Urtzi Ayesta, Josh Blanton, Per Hurtig. Early Retransmit for TCP and SCTP, April 2010. RFC 5827.

An Assessment of Web Timeouts

Two weeks ago at PAM Zak presented our work in assessing the length and implications of various timeouts associated with the process of downloading web pages. The paper are slides:

• Zakaria Al-Qudah, Michael Rabinovich, Mark Allman. Web Timeouts and Their Implications. Passive and Active Measurement Conference, April 2010. Zak's slides.

A Longitudinal Look at Web Traffic

A couple weeks back at PAM Tom presented our initial analysis of 3.5 years of HTTP traffic from ICSI's border. The paper and slides from the talk:

• Tom Callahan, Mark Allman, Vern Paxson. A Longitudinal View of HTTP Traffic. Passive and Active Measurement Conference, April 2010. Tom's slides.