Lawrence S. Brakmo
Ph.D. candidate (expected completion date: May 1996)
Department of Computer Science
The University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721-0077
Phone: (520) 621-4889
Fax: (520) 621-4246
E-mail: brakmo@cs.arizona.edu
Lawrence is a Ph.D. candidate in the
graduate program of the Computer Science
department at the University of Arizona .
He is a member of the
Network Systems Research Group .
His expected completion date is May 1996 (his Curriculum Vitae
is available upon request).
He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mathematics
and a M.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of
Arizona. He is a member of the ACM.
Research Interests
- Computer networks
- Network congestion avoidance techniques
- TCP
- Network simulation
- Pen-based user interfaces
- Operating Systems
- TCP Vegas: New Techniques for Congestion Detection and Avoidance
L. Brakmo, S. O'Malley and L. Peterson
Proceedings of the SIGCOMM '94 Symposium , August 1994,
pg. 24-35.
- Performance Problems in BSD4.4 TCP
L. Brakmo and L. Peterson
Computer Communication Review , Vol 25, No. 5, October 1995,
pg. 69-86.
- TCP Vegas: End to End Congestion Avoidance on a Global Internet
L. Brakmo and L. Peterson
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication, Vol 13, No. 8,
October 1995, pg. 1465-1480.
- Experiences with Network Simulation
L. Brakmo and L. Peterson
SIGMETRICS '96 , to appear.
Software
- TCP Vegas
- An implementation of TCP based on the TCP Reno code resulting in
higher throughput and fewer losses than TCP Reno. TCP Vegas is described
in the JSAC paper and the x-kernel
implementation is available
here .
- x-Sim
- A direct execution (executes real protocol code) network simulator
based on the x-kernel. Protocols can be executed in the simulator as
well as on Internet hosts without modification.
There is a basic description of the simulator in the
SIGMETRIC '96 paper.
The simulator will be made available in the first quarter of 1996.