Congestion Control for High Bandwidth-Delay Product Networks. Dina Katabi (MIT), Mark Handley (ICSI), Charlie Rohrs (Tellabs)

Another ACM SIGCOMM abstract

"... a novel approach to Internet congestion control that outperforms TCP in conventional environments, and remains efficient, fair, scalable, and stable as the bandwidth-delay product increases. This new eXplicit Control Protocol, XCP, generalizes the Explicit Congestion Notification proposal (ECN). In addition, XCP introduces the new concept of decoupling utilization control from fairness control. This allows a more flexible and analytically tractable protocol design and opens new avenues for service differentiation. ..."

End-to-End Available Bandwidth: Measurement Methodology, Dynamics, and Relation with TCP Throughput. Manish Jain, Constantinos Dovrolis (Univerity of Delaware)

ACM SIGCOMM 2002 paper abstract with link to PDF of paper.

"... an end-to-end methodology, called Self-Loading Periodic Streams (SLoPS), for measuring avail-bw. The basic idea in SLoPS is that the one-way delays of a periodic packet stream show an increasing trend when the stream's rate is higher than the avail-bw. ..."

OrcaWare Consulting - Orca Home Page

"... Orca is a tool useful for plotting arbitrary data from text files onto a directory on a Web server. ..."

Pretty interesting open-source and FREE tool for charting text based data sets.