SLAC Networking Publications and Presentations

SLAC Last Update: 2003

SCS Group | Network Group | Computer Networking

Publications/White Papers/Proposals

• Current State of the Internet and Network Monitoring, Les Cottrell & W. P. Lidinsky, for the ESnet Progress Report, Feb 1997.
• Internet Performance and Reliability Measurements for the High Energy Physics Community D.E. Martin, R.L. Cottrell, C.A. Logg. April, 1997. A paper describing the work in progress at several sites to monitor Internet performance. Written for CHEP 97.
• What is the Internet Doing for and to You?, R. L. A. Cottrell, C. A. Logg, D. E. Martin, CHEP97, April 1997.
• "What is the Internet Doing ? Performance and Reliability Monitoring for the HEP Community" Computer Physics Communications vol 110 p142-148 May 1998.
• Discussant Remarks on session: Statistical SAspects of Measuring the Internet, R. Les Cottrell, Computing Science and Statistics Volume 30, Proceedings of the 30th Symposium on the Interface, Minneapolis, Minnesota, may 13-16, 1998.
• Active Measurement Infrastructure for ESnet (AMIE), pre-proposal in response to DoE Officeof Science Notice 01-06, submitted January 2001.
• Optimizing Performance of Throughput by Simulation (OPTS) pre-proposal in response to DoE Officeof Science Notice 01-06, submitted January 2001.
• Active Internet Measurements for ESnet (AIME), proposal in response to DoE Office od Sciences Notice 01-01, published December 7, 2000. Also see the Response to questions raised by reviewers.
• An Aria With Hiccups: The Music of Data Networks, NY Times December 19, 2002.
• iGrid2002 Demonstration: Bamdwidth from the Low Lands, R. Les Cottrell, Antony Antony, Connie Logg and Jiri Navratil, SLAC-PUB-9560, October 31, 2002
• ABWE: A Practical Approach to Available Bandwidth Estimation, Jiri Navratil, Les Cottrell, SLAC-PUB-9622, published at PAM 2003.
• Measuring end-to-end bandwidth with Iperf using Web100, Ajay Tirumala, Les Cottrell, Tom Dunigan, SLAC-PUB-9733, published at PAM2003, April 2003.
• pathChirp: Efficient Available Bandwidth Estimation for Network Paths Vinay Ribeiro, Rudolf Reidi, Richard Baraniuk, Jiri Navratil, Les Cottrell, SLAC-PUB-9732, published at PAM 2003, April 2003.
• Experiences and Results from a New High Performance Network and Application Monitoring Toolkit, Les Cottrell, Connie Logg, I-Heng Mei, SLAC-PUB-9641, published at PAM 2003, April 2003.

Talks/Seminars/lectures

• General Networking (oldest first)
  • Report on CHEP97/ICFA Mini Workshop on HEP and the Internet, Les Cottrell, presented at the ESCC meeting San Diego, Apr 1997.
  • Network Connectivity talk given by Les Cottrell at the SLAC Users Organization meeting May 1997.
  • SLAC Networking talk given by Les Cottrell for the SLAC Computing External Review, June 1997.
  • Internet Connectivity, talk given by Les Cottrell at the SLAC Computing Forum, July 11, 1997.
  • SLAC B-Factory BaBar WAN Requirements, talk given by Les Cottrell at the NTON Research Partner Meeting, LLNL, July 30, 1997.
  • Switched Networks at SLAC, talk given by Dave Millsom at SCS in February 98.
  • Network Connectivity, invited talk given by Les Cottrell at the SLAC Users' Organization Annual Meeting, July 15, 1998.
  • SLAC Network - Status & PlansTransparencies prepared by Les Cottrell and Dave Millsom for SLAC CCC Meeting 10/12/98.
  • xDSL at SLAC, presentation by Dave Millsom at ESCC meeting at FNAL October 98.
  • SLAC Network Group Priorities (1998) talk given by Les Cottrell, Nov-98.
  • Networking in Italy, presented by Davide Salomoni at the SLAC network group meeting, March 30, 1999.
  • xDSL in the ESnet community, talk given by Les Cottrell at the ESCC meeting San Diego April 1999.
  • Voice-over-IP Pilot Project, talk given by Charles Granieri at the ESCC meeting in San Diego, April 1999 and at the ESSC meeting in Santa Fe, Sept 1999.
  • IP Multicast, talk given by Davide Salomoni to the SLAC network group, April 1999.
  • SLAC Networking, Summer 1999, talk prepared by Les Cottrell and presented by Charles Granieri to the External review committee for SLAC Computing, June 1999.
  • Particle Physics Data Grid (PPDG) Project, presented by Les Cottrell at the NGI Workshop, Berkeley, July 21, 1999.
  • Report from NGI Testbed meeting at Berkeley 21-22 July, 1999, presented by Les Cottrell at the NGI/PPDG meeting at CalTech, August 5, 1999.
  • SLAC LAN/WAN Description - October 1999, Presented by Dave Millsom to DOE Security Architecture Committee, Oct 27th 1999
  • High-Performance Throughput Tuning/Measurements, presented by Davide Salomoni at the PPDG Collaboration Meeting, Argonne, July 13, 2000
  • SLAC Status, presented by Les Cottrell at the ESnet International meeting in Kyoto, Japan July 2000.
  • Networking and BaBar, presented by Davide Salomoni at the BaBar Collaboration Meeting, Data Distribution Group, SLAC December 2000.
  • HSRP (Hot Standby Routing Protocol), presented by Paola Grosso at the Network Engineering Meeting on Mar.12 2001.
  • Ping 2001 Exhibit at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, March 2001.
  • Wide-Area-Networking at SLAC: Bulk Throughput Performance, presented by Les Cottrell at SLAC, April 6, 2001.
  • Load balancing in the new SLAC core network, presented by Paola Grosso at the Network Engineering Meeting on Apr.9 2001.
  • International Nathiagali Summer College Lectures, given by Les Cottrell in Pakistan, June 2001
  • QBSS: QBone Scavanger Services, presented by Paola Grosso at the Network Group Meeting on Apr.9 2001
  • ISDN Phase Out, presented by Ken Martell at the SCS Managers Meeting, 27 August 2001
  • DHCP:current status, presented by Paola Grosso at the Network Group Meeting on Apr.2 2002
  • QBSS at SLAC and SC2001, presented by Paola Grosso at the ESCC meeting in San Diegoon Apr.9 2002
• Cabling/Wiring:
  • Structured Wiring Proposal for SLAC R. L. A. Cottrell. S. Crawford, F. Hooker, Presentation to the Associate Directors, Dec 1994.
  • SCS Fiber Plant to IR2 presentation given by Les Cottrell to the BaBar/SCS coordination group, Oct-10-96.
• Other Computing Issues
  • VPN.BAT, A tool for diagnosing VPN problems, Les Cottrell, presented at the SLAC NT Administrators meeting 2/6/01.
  • BSD Firewall, Les Cottrell, presented at the SCS Technical Coordination Meeting July 22, 1999.
  • ESnet Email Survey October 1998 presentation given by Les Cottrell at the ESnet Mail task Force meeting at FNAL Oct-98.
• Telecommunications
  • SLAC Telecommunications, Where are we Going?, Les Cottrell, November 1997.
  • VM Phaseout for Telecommunications, Networking & VMS, Les Cottrell, November 1997.
  • Pagers at SLAC talk given by Les Cottrell to the SLAC Key Managers, February 10, 1998.
  • SLAC's International Phone Call Use presentation by Les Cottrell to the ADCC, October 1998.
  • SLAC's Unknown Phone numbers, talk given by Les Cottrell in August and September 1999 to SCS managers, ADCCs and SLAC key managers.
  • ATOM Update, February 2000., presented by Les Cottrell and Teresa Downey to the ATOMs at SLAC, Feb 1-2, 2000.
  • SLAC PBX Upgrade, presented by Les Cottrell to the SLAC Senior Managers, March 2000.

Drawings/Tables/Graphs

• SLAC's Switched LAN, Spring 1997.
• SLAC FDDI Backbone, Oct 1995*
• SLAC FDDI Gigaswitch Connections*
• SLAC Network Hub for Public Servers, Jan 1995*
• SLAC Subnets Feb-1995*
• SLAC Subnets, as proposed for Spring 1995*
• SLAC Subnets, as proposed for Summer 1995*
• SLAC Proposed switched Virtual Ethernet LAN backbone, Summer 1995*
• SLAC's WAN Connections October 1995
• Response time measurements between SLAC and off-site collaborator nodes Dec 94* and Sep 95

Footnote: * Indicates the file is only accessible from SLAC nodes.
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