Internet Architecture Board

RFC2850

Congestion Control Workshop Agenda and Materials

08:30 – 09:00: Coffee

09:00 – 09:15: Welcome and Logistics (Workshop organizers): Slides

  • Note Well
  • Attendee list
  • Volunteers: Minute takers, Workshop Report

09:15 – 10:30: Keynote (Mark Handley): Slides

Mark will share his ideas about the problem and which mechanisms may and may not work.

10:30 – 11:30: Data (Discussion Lead: Cullen Jennings): Slides

In this session we will review data (simulations or real-world measurements). Some potentially relevant papers include:

Paper #4 – Zaheduzzaman Sarker (Ericsson)
Paper #6 – Stefan Holmer (Google)
Paper #9 – Ilpo Järvinen, Markku Kojo (University of Helsinki)
Paper #11 – Cullen Jennings, Suhas Nandakumar (Cisco)
Paper #25 – Mo Zanaty (Cisco)
Paper #28 – Keith Winstein, Anirudh Sivaraman (MIT)
Paper #30 – Pierre-Ugo Tournoux, Tuan Tran Thai, Emmanuel Lochin, Jerome Lacan and Vincent Roca

11:30 – 12:30 Constraints (Discussion lead: Hannes Tschofenig): Slides

What are the limitations given the state of current deployment?

Potentially relevant papers:

Paper #1 – Michael Welzl (Univ of Oslo)
Paper #14 – John Leslie (remote)
Paper #23 – Matt Mathis (Google)
Paper #32 – Jim Gettys (Bell labs)

Background information:
Bauer and Beverly, “Measuring the current state of ECN support in server, clients, and routers”, http://mirrors.bufferbloat.net/Talks/AIMS2011/bauer-ecn-aims-2011.pdf

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 15:00: Desirable Properties of Solutions (Discussion Lead: Lars Eggert): Slides

In this session we will:

  • Discuss success metrics suggested within the submissions.
  • Discuss potential requirements.
  • Note: We are not trying to decide on a set of “must do” requirements but instead find a set of desired properties and the gain an understanding of the tradeoffs between solutions flawed in different ways.

Potentially relevant papers:

Paper #3 – Harald Alvestrand (Google)
Paper #6 – Stefan Holmer (Google)
Paper #18 – Randell Jessup (Mozilla)
Paper #24 – Mo Zanaty (Cisco)
Paper #26 – Tim Terriberry (Mozilla)
Paper #32 – Jim Gettys (Bell labs)

15:00 – 15:30: Coffee

15:30 – 17:00: What can we do? (Discussion Lead: Bernard Aboba)

The following slides were shown during this session:

In this session we will discuss various building blocks that could be part of the solution mix. What new standardization and research work is needed?

Potential topics for discussion

  • AQM/ECN/CoDel
  • QoS (DiffServ, IntServ)
  • Congestion indications: delay, loss, ECN
  • Response to congestion indications (adjustment of quality/resolution/frame rate, FEC, re-transmission)
  • Competition between RTP and SCTP/TCP
  • Single versus multiple rate controllers
  • Receiver vs. Sender side control
  • Multiplexing
  • TFRC
  • Loss Detection
  • API considerations

Relevant Papers:

Protocol and algorithmic aspects:

Paper #1- Michael Welzl (Univ of Oslo)
Paper #8 – Wesley Eddy (MTI Systems)
Paper #12 – Xiaoqing Zhu (Cisco)
Paper #13 – Sanjeev Mehrotra, Jin Li (Microsoft)
Paper #14 – John Leslie (remote)
Paper #15 – Dirk Kutscher, Bob Briscoe (NEC)
Paper #21 – Ali Begen (Cisco)
Paper #27 – Murari Sridharan (Microsoft)
Paper #28 – Keith Winstein, Anirudh Sivaraman (MIT)
Paper #31 – Stephen Botzko, Mary Barnes (Polycom)
Paper #32 – Jim Gettys (Bell labs)

API Considerations

Paper #7 – Ted Hardie (Google)
Paper #19 – Varun Singh (remote), Jorg Ott, Colin Perkins (Aalto University, University of Glasgow)

17:00 – 18:00: Summary and Conclusions (Discussion Lead: Hannes Tschofenig): Slides

In this session we will summarize the workshop discussion and identify the key conclusions.

20:00 Self-organized Dinner(s)