[157486] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Coded TCP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Painter)
Tue Oct 23 23:57:10 2012
From: "Michael Painter" <tvhawaii@shaka.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 17:57:12 -1000
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
George Herbert wrote:
> Modeled with just simple FTP sessions?
>
> Ugh: they admitted to having MIT backbone packet traces to analyze, and then used that simple of a simulator...
The practical benefits of the technology, known as coded TCP, were seen on a recent test run on a New York-to-Boston Acela
train, notorious for poor connectivity. By increasing their available bandwidth-the amount of data that can be relayed in
a given period of time-Medard and students were able to watch blip-free YouTube videos while some other passengers
struggled to get online. "They were asking us 'How did you do that?' and we said 'We're engineers!' " she jokes.
More here:
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/429722/a-bandwidth-breakthrough/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_source=newsletter-daily-all&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20121023
