Projects

Most recent work

• Improving the Internet's transport layer
  
  
• For more, see the personal webpages of my Ph.D. students!
  
  

Content perspective: some past and ongoing projects

• UIBK contributions to the EC-GIN project
  • GSWS, a tool to simulate the execution of (concrete, scheduled) Grid workflows with ns-2
  • A library for speeding up Grid service calls with SCTP
  • Shared bottleneck detection with SVD
  • The MulTFRC congestion control mechanism, which has its own website
    
    
• Spurious loss event detection with ECN
  
  
• NetMusic
  
  
• Making use of corrupt packets
  
  
• IP Option Processing - measurement studies in support of the Path MTU Discovery using Options idea
  
  
• Active QoS Routing (Alfred Cihal's master's thesis), with a few additional papers and code
  
  
• Evaluation of Rate Adaptation Mechanisms from a QoE Perspective
  
  
• PTP: The Performance Transparency Protocol
  This encompasses all the work that I did for my Ph.D. thesis, including the congestion control scheme called "Congestion Avoidance with Distributed Proportional Control (CADPC)".
  

I classified some research related efforts as tools...

Past projects (funding view)

• EC-GIN
  I was coordinator of this project which was a STREP in EU FP6 (2.2 M Euro and, 7 partners in Europe, 4 in China), from November 2006 to January 2010. EC-GIN was attested excellent performance at the final review meeting in March 2010.
  
  
• Robuste Echtzeitübertragung von Videos über IP (REVI)
  I was primary investigatorof this collaborative project with ASFINAG. REVI received funding from TransIT.
  
  
• The Network Support for Grid Computing (NSG) Team
  I was primary investigator of this add-on project which is funded by the Tyrolean Science Fund (TWF) and the University of Innsbruck ("Aktion D. Swarovski 2006"). This project actually consisted of three separate projects.
  
  
• Methoden zur transparenten Anwendung von Staukontrollverfahren zur Leistungssteigerung von Streaming-Media-Anwendungen
  I was primary investigator of this add-on project which was funded by the Tyrolean Science Fund (TWF).
  
  
• N-TCP-friendly Congestion Control: Enhancing the Performance of Aggregates
  I was primary investigator of this project which was funded by the University of Innsbruck.
  
  
• Tailor-made Congestion Control
  I was primary investigator of this project which was funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).
  
  
• Tailor-made Congestion Control for the Grid
  I was primary investigator of this add-on project which was funded by the Tyrolean Science Fund (TWF).
  
  
• IP-TV++
  I was primary investigator of this collaborative project with Planet-Digital. IP-TV++ received funding from TransIT.
  
  
• MEP-VPN: Middlebox End-to-end Performance Enhancements for VPNs
  I was primary investigator of this collaborative project with phion information technologies. MEP-VPN received funding from TransIT.
  
  
• An Analysis of SCTP
  This was a funded bachelor thesis in cooperation with Phion Information Technologies GmbH
  
  
• EuroNGI
  I acted as a visiting researcher at the Institute for Telecooperation (University of Linz) working in the EuroNGI project, which was a NoE in EU FP6.