| Bulk Transport Working Group
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Chairs
Injong Rhee
Stanislav Shalunov
Mission
To create a tool for bulk transport that is suitable for
high-performance networks.
Description
The Transport working group will address the need of the community for
a bulk transport tool that is easy to use on today's advanced
networks, is portable across a wide range of platforms, has high
performance, can tolerate minor non-congestive packet loss, applicable
to both static file transfer and interactive applications, and is
TCP-friendly.
The working group will serve as a forum for discussion of the
transport protocols topic within the Internet2 community.
The working group will not work on modifications of TCP, SCTP, DCCP
or their congestion control or on solutions for transport problems of
closed networks where global scheduling is possible.
Milestones
- Target: 2005-05 (DONE)
- Design space survey for a bulk transport tool
- Target: 2005-10
- Application Programmer Interface description
- Target: 2005-10
- Bulk transport protocol specification
- Target: 2005-12
- Preliminary experience report
- Target: 2005-12
- Review and revise milestones
Documents
Working group output:
- Stanislav Shalunov,
Lawrence D. Dunn, Yunhong Gu, Steven Low, Injong Rhee, Steven Senger,
Bartek Wydrowski, and Lisong Xu, ``Design Space for a Bulk Transport
Tool'', Internet2 Bulk Transport Working Group Report, May 2005.
Work in progress:
Mailing List
The mailing list transport
(hosted at the domain internet2.edu) is publicly archived
and open to subscriptions.
Presentations
The following presentations featured the work of the this group:
- Stanislav
Shalunov, ``Internet2 Transport Effort'', ESnet meeting, Salt Lake
City, February 17th, 2005.
- Stanislav
Shalunov and Steven Senger, ``Transport Protocols: Bulk File
Transfer'', ESCC/Internet2 Joint Techs Workshop, Salt Lake City,
February 16th, 2005.
- Ben
Teitelbaum, ``Internet2 Applications'', Texas A&M University
Internet2 Day, February 7th, 2005, slides 27--34.
- Jeff W. Boote, Eric Boyd, and Nicolas Simar, ``Performance
Measurement'', CANARIE/DANTE/Internet2 meeting, Rome, January 2005,
slide 23.
Meetings and Teleconferences
- 2006-04-25 meeting (Arlington): agenda.
- 2006-02-06 meeting (Albuquerque): agenda.
- 2005-09-19 meeting (Philadelphia): agenda, minutes.
- 2005-09-02 teleconference: agenda, minutes.
- 2005-07-01 teleconference: agenda, minutes.
- 2005-05-27 teleconference: agenda, minutes.
- 2005-05-13 teleconference: agenda, minutes.
- 2005-05-03 meeting (Arlington): agenda, minutes.
- 2005-04-15 teleconference: agenda, minutes.
- 2005-03-18 teleconference: agenda, minutes.
- 2005-03-04 teleconference: agenda, minutes.
- 2005-02-25 teleconference: agenda, minutes.
- 2005-02-18 teleconference: agenda, minutes.
- 2005-02-11 teleconference: agenda, minutes.
- 2005-02-04 teleconference: agenda,
minutes.
- 2005-01-28 teleconference: agenda,
minutes.
- 2005-01-14 teleconference: agenda,
minutes.
- 2004-11-19 teleconference: agenda,
minutes.
- 2004-11-05 teleconference: agenda,
minutes.
- 2004-10-29 teleconference: agenda, minutes.
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