2005, 2006

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2004

• Priya Narasimhan, Hans Kruse, Shawn Ostermann, Mark Allman. On the Impact of BER on Realistic TCP Traffic in Satellite Networks. Technical Report 04-005, International Computer Science Institute, November 2004.

• Wesley Eddy, Shawn Ostermann, Mark Allman. New Techniques for Making Transport Protocols Robust to Corruption-Based Loss. ACM Computer Communication Review, 34(5), October 2004. (Available in Postscript and PDF).

2003

• Manikantan Ramadas, Shawn Ostermann, and Brett Tjaden. Detecting Anomalous Network Traffic with Self-Organizing Maps. Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection, 6th International Symposium, RAID 2003, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, September 2003. Published in Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. (Available in Postscript and PDF).

• Mark Allman, Wesley M. Eddy, Shawn Ostermann. Estimating Loss Rates With TCP. ACM Performance Evaluation Review, 31 (3), December 2003. (Available in PostScript and PDF).

2002

• T. Kelleher, B. Saunders, and S. Ostermann "Use of QoS to manage traffic Congestion on Network Edge Links", in the Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Telecommunication Systems, Modeling and Analysis (ICTSM10). (Available in gzipped Postscript and Postscript and Adobe PDF form).

• Rigoberto Chinchilla, John Hoag, David Koonce, Hans Kruse, Shawn Ostermann, and Yufei Wang, "Characterization of Internet Traffic and User Classification: Foundations for the Next Generation of Network Emulation" in the Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Telecommunication Systems, Modeling and Analysis (ICTSM10). (Available in Adobe PDF form).

• Marina Bykova and Shawn Ostermann. "Statistical Analysis of Malformed Packets and Their Origins in the Modern Internet" in the Proceedings of Internet Measurement Workshop 2002 (Available in gzipped Postscript and Postscript and Adobe PDF form).

2001

• M. Bykova, S. Ostermann, and B. Tjaden, "Detecting Network Intrusions via a Statistical Analysis of Network Packet Characteristics ", in the Proceedings of the 33rd Southeastern Symposium on System Theory (SSST 2001), March 2001. (Available in gzipped Postscript and Postscript and Adobe PDF form).

2000

• B. Tjaden, L. Welch, S. Ostermann, D. Chelberg, R. Balupari, M. Bykova, A. Mitchell, and L. Tong, "SECURE-RM: Security and Resource Management for Dynamic Real-Time Systems ", in the Proceedings of the 2nd Southern Conference on Computing (SCC 2000) October 2000. (Available in gzipped Postscript and Postscript and Adobe PDF form).

• Brett Tjaden, Lonnie Welch, Shawn Ostermann, David Chelberg, Ravindra Balupari, Marina Bykova, Matthew Delaney, Aaron Mitchell, Sen Li, Denis Lissitsyn, and Lu Tong. INBOUNDS: The Integrated Network­Based Ohio University Network Detective Service. In 4th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics (SCI'2000), July 2000. (Available in gzipped Postscript and Postscript and Adobe PDF form).

• Mark Allman, Shawn Ostermann. FTP Extensions for Variable Protocol Specification. Technical Report CR-2000-209414, NASA Glenn Research Center, February 2000. (Available in gzipped Postscript and Adobe PDF form).

• Hans Kruse, Shawn Ostermann, Mark Allman. On the Performance of TCP-based Data Transfers on a Faded Ka-Band Satellite Link. Proceedings of the 6th Ka-Band Utilization Conference, June 2000. Also in PDF

• Mark Allman, Hans Kruse, Shawn Ostermann. A History of the Improvement of Internet Protocols Over Satellites Using ACTS. Invited paper for ACTS Conference 2000, May 2000. The presentation slides are also available.

• Mark Allman, Spencer Dawkins, Dan Glover, Jim Griner, Diepchi Tran, Tom Henderson, John Heidemann, Joe Touch, Hans Kruse, Shawn Ostermann, Keith Scott, Jeff Semke. Ongoing TCP Research Related to Satellites, February 2000. RFC 2760.

1999

• Mark Allman, Spencer Dawkins, Dan Glover, Jim Griner, John Heidemann, Tom Henderson, Hans Kruse, Shawn Ostermann, Keith Scott, Jeffrey Semke, Joe Touch, Diepchi Tran. Ongoing TCP Research Related to Satellites, August 1999. Internet-Draft draft-ietf-tcpsat-res-issues-10.txt (work in progress).

• Mark Allman, Shawn Ostermann. FTP Security Considerations, May 1999. RFC 2577.

• Hans Kruse, Mark Allman, Jim Griner, Shawn Ostermann, Eric Helvey. Satellite Network Performance Measurements Using Simulated Multi-User Internet Traffic. March 1999. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Telecommunication Systems. (Note: the postscript might not work with ghostview, but seems to print fine. A PDF version is also available.)

1998

• Mark Allman, Shawn Ostermann, and Craig Metz. FTP Extensions for IPv6 and NATs, May 1999. RFC 2428.

• Shawn Ostermann. Please Don't Eat All The Dough An "Outrageous Opinion" that won an award (a really cool hat) at SIGCOMM 98.

• Mark Allman, Chris Hayes, Shawn Ostermann. An Evaluation of TCP with Larger Initial Windows June 1998 (July SigCOMM CCR). (Available in Postscript, gzipped Postscript, and Adobe PDF form).

1997

• Mark Allman, Chris Hayes, Hans Kruse, Shawn Ostermann. TCP Performance over Satellite Links. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Telecommunications Systems, Nashville, TN, March, 1997. (with corrections). (Available in Postscript, gzipped Postscript, and Adobe PDF form).

• Mark Allman, Adam Caldwell, Shawn Ostermann. ONE: The Ohio Network Emulator. Technical Report TR-19972, Ohio University Computer Science, August 1997. (Available in Postscript, gzipped Postscript, and Adobe PDF form).

• Mark Allman, Shawn Ostermann. Multiple Data Connection FTP Extensions. Technical Report TR-19971, Ohio University Computer Science, February 1997. (Available in Postscript, gzipped Postscript, and Adobe PDF form).

1996

• Mark Allman, Hans Kruse, Shawn Ostermann. An Application-Level Solution to TCP's Satellite Inefficiencies. Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Satellite-based Information Services (WOSBIS) (November 13, 1996), Rye, New York, USA (Available in Postscript, gzipped Postscript, Adobe PDF, and Mac hqx format form).
  

  Also, a copy of the overhead slides presented at the conference is available in Postscript, gzipped Postscript, and Adobe PDF formats.

1995

• Mark Allman, Shawn Ostermann, Hans Kruse. Data Transfer Efficiency Over Satellite Circuits Using a Multi-Socket Extension to the File Transfer Protocol (FTP). Proceedings of the ACTS Results Conference, NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, September 11-13, 1995. (Available as Postscript, gzipped Postscript, Adobe PDF or Mac hqx format formats).

2003

• New Techniques for Making TCP Robust to Corruption-Based Loss. NASA's Third Space Internet Workshop (SIW3). June, 2003. Cleveland, Ohio. Slides available in PostScript, along with plaintext accompanying words and abstract.

2001

• A LaTeX Presentation, by Marina Bykova. (Presentation files available as Postscript, Adobe PDF. Source files available as gzipped tar).

1996

• An Application-Level Solution to TCP's Satellite Inefficiencies. Workshop on Satellite-based Information Services (WOSBIS). November, 1996. Rye, New York. Slides available in Postscript, gzipped Postscript, or Adobe PDF formats.

2002

• Priya Narasimhan. An Evaluation of Realistic TCP Traffic in Satellite Networks. Master's Thesis, Ohio University, June 2002. (Available in Postscript, gzipped Postscript, and Adobe PDF form)

2001

• Marina Bykova. Statistical Analysis of Malformed Packets and their Origins in the Modern Internet. Master's Thesis, Ohio University, November 2001. (Available in Postscript, gzipped Postscript, and Adobe PDF form)

2000

• Issam Safa. A User Level Model for Artificial Internet Traffic Generation. Master's Thesis, Ohio University, November 2000. (Available in Postscript, gzipped Postscript, and Adobe PDF form)
• Vitali Chipitsyn. Improvement of Ohio University Computer Networks with Internet Protocol Version 6 . Master's Thesis, Ohio University, June 2000. (Available in Postscript, gzipped Postscript, and Adobe PDF form).

1999

• Rahul Sangal. Performance Analysis of the Transmission Control Protocol Over Low Earth Orbit Satellite Communication Systems. Master's Thesis, Ohio University, August 1999. (Available in Postscript, gzipped Postscript, and Adobe PDF form).

1998

• Dethe Elza. Browser Evolution: Document Access on the World Wide Web. Master's Thesis, Ohio University, March 1998. (Available in Postscript, gzipped Postscript, and Adobe PDF form).

• Eric Helvey Trafgen: An Efficient Approach to Statistically Accurate Artificial Network Traffic Generation. Master's Thesis, Ohio University, August 1998. (Available in Postscript, gzipped Postscript, and Adobe PDF form).

1997

• Xin Chen. Performance Analysis of Persistent HTTP over Satellite Links . Master's Thesis, Ohio University, November 1997. (Available in Postscript, gzipped Postscript, and Adobe PDF form).

• Chris Hayes. Analyzing the Performance of New TCP Implementations over Satellite Links. Master's Thesis, Ohio University, August 1997. (Available in Postscript, gzipped Postscript, and Adobe PDF form).

• Harley Stenzel. Bottleneck Management: A New Approach to Bandwidth Management. Master's Thesis, Ohio University, July 1997. (Available in Postscript, gzipped Postscript, and Adobe PDF form).

• Brian Wilson. The Creation of a Functional Mailing List Server With a Graphical User Interface. Master's Thesis, Ohio University, June 1997. (Available in Postscript, gzipped Postscript, and Adobe PDF form).

• Mark Allman. Improving TCP Performance Over Satellite Channels. Master's Thesis, Ohio University, June 1997. (Available in Postscript, gzipped Postscript, and Adobe PDF form).

1995

• Stacy Johnson. Increasing TCP Throughput by Using an Extended Acknowledgment Interval. Master's Thesis, Ohio University, June 1995. (Available in Postscript, gzipped Postscript, and Adobe PDF form).