This lecture provides an introduction to internet ossification, what causes it and how the problem can be addressed.
Course lecture: Internet ossification
Related materials
The first article introduces the problem of internet ossification and provides a comprehensive survey of the diffrent techniques that have been proposed to tackle the problem, highlighting their benefits and limitations. The second resource is a lecture that introduces the QUIC transport protocol, providing a nice introduction to internet ossification as part of the background. If you did not watch this lecture as part of our course block on “QUIC and the Evolution of the Web”, have a look at the first 35 minutes or so (or all of it if you are interested in QUIC). Despite a few glitches in the sound, a very good video.
- “De-ossifying the Internet Transport Layer: A Survey and Future Perspectives”, G. Papastergiou, A. Brunstrom, G. Fairhurst, K-J. Grinnemo, P. Hurtig, N. Khademi, D. Ros, M. Tüxen, M. Welzl, D. Damjanovic, and S. Mangiante. In IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, vol. 19 no. 1, November 2016. [pdf available here]
- “QUIC: A new Internet transport” A lecture by Lars Eggert from Nettapp, chair of the QUIC IETF working group within the IETF. The video is available at the following link: https://rwth.video/17ws-quic/12107
Additional readings
- “Is it Still Possible to Extend TCP?”, M. Honda, Y. Nishida, C. Raiciu, A. Greenhalgh, M. Handley, and H. Tokuda, In Proceedings of IMC, November 2011, Berlin, Germany. [pdf available here]
- A Middlebox-Cooperative TCP for a non End-to-End Internet”, R. Craven, R. Beverly, and M. Allman, In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM, August, 2014, Chicago, IL, USA. [pdf available here]
- AB Workshop on Stack Evolution in a Middlebox Internet (SEMI), IAB, Jaunary 2015, Zürich, Switzerland. [available here]