Il giorno 22/09/17 si terrà, presso il Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettronica in aula R3, dalle ore 14:00, un Workshop della durata di 3-4 ore in lingua inglese dal titolo: “TCP in painful details (and a little bit of SCTP)”.

Abstract: We all use the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) every day, to read our emails, look at web pages etc. While it’s easy to use, TCP is pretty hard to understand, and trying to read its code can truly hurt. The pain comes from the way the protocol has evolved – for every problematic corner case, a patch was added. Even today, making TCP run efficiently is not a solved problem, as companies like Google are investing significant efforts into its further improvement. In this tutorial, we will follow the historical development of TCP, which coincides with its growth of code and complexity, ending with the latest developments; at this point, if you remember TCP fundamentals from a basic networks introduction, you may be surprised to hear how far reality has in fact diverged. The tutorial will finish with a brief look at the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) — a “TCP++” protocol that improves upon TCP in several aspects.

Speaker Bio: Michael Welzl is a full professor in the Department of Informatics of the University of Oslo since 2009. He received his Ph.D. (with distinction) and his habilitation from the University of Darmstadt / Germany in 2002 and 2007, respectively, and worked at the Universities of Linz and Innsbruck in Austria. His habilitation thesis, the Wiley book “Network Congestion Control: Managing Internet Traffic”, is the only introductory book on network congestion control. Michael is active in the IETF and IRTF, e.g. as chair of the Internet Congestion Control Research Group (ICCRG) and by leading the effort to form the Transport Services (TAPS) Working Group. He has also been participating in several European research projects, including roles such as coordinator and technical manager.

Per ulteriori informazioni:

marco.spaziani.brunella@uniroma2.it

giuseppe.bianchi@uniroma2.it

michawe@ifi.uio.no