Internet2

Bulk Transport Working Group

Chairs

Steven Senger

Chester Ruszczyk

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:

Work in progress:


Relevant Work

Phoebus/Logistical Session Layer (LSL):


VFER:



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:

Meetings and Teleconferences

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