A New, Evolutive API and Transport-Layer Architecture for the Internet

Deliverables

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Data management plan

Report explaining which of the research data generated by the project will be made open, according to Horizon 2020’s Open Research Data Pilot guidelines.

Documents, reports (8)

Validation and evaluation results

Demonstrator and report collating and summarising the most important experimental results. The report will also outline any best practices for implementation of NEAT and recommendations for future enhancements.

Report on dissemination and standardisation efforts

Reports the dissemination and standardization activities with quantified impact of different measures.

First version of services and APIs

Report containing a first specification of the transport services and APIs to be implemented.

Final version of services and APIs

Update of deliverable D1.2, with the definitive specification of transport services and APIs.

First version of low-level core transport system

Report presenting the basic building blocks of the low-level NEAT transport system.

Exploitation plan

Reports on-going and planned exploitation by project partners, and as far as possible for external actors. Analysis and quantification of impact will also be presented when possible.

NEAT architecture

Report describing the NEAT transport system architecture and recording the initial requirements analysis and describing the use cases to be considered by the Project.

Core transport system, with both low-level and high-level components

Report presenting the first version of the complete core NEAT transport system.

Other (2)

Final version of NEAT-based tools

Report detailing the final versions of tools and tests developed for validation and performance analysis.

Final version of Core transport system

Update of Deliverable D2.2, with the definitive implementation of the core NEAT transport system released as open-source code.

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

Public dissemination tools and website

Completed website, profile, dissemination templates and other useful tools.

Publications

Conference proceedings (21)

fling: A Middlebox Measurement Platform

Author(s): R. Barik, M. Welzl, and A. Elmokashfi
Published in: ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) Works-in-Progress Session, 2016
Publisher: ACM

ctrlTCP: Reducing Latency through Coupled, Heterogeneous Multi-Flow TCP Congestion Control

Author(s): S. Islam, M. Welzl, K. A. Hiorth, D. Hayes, G. Armitage and S. Gjessing
Published in: 21st IEEE Global Internet Symposium (GI 2018), 2018
Publisher: IEEE

Lightweight and Flexible Single-Path Congestion Control Coupling

Author(s): S. Islam, M. Welzl and S. Gjessing
Published in: IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, 2018
Publisher: IEEE

Raising the Datagram API to Support Transport Protocol Evolution

Author(s): Tom Jones; Gorry Fairhurst; Colin Perkins
Published in: Workshop on Future of Internet Transport (FIT 2017), 7, 2017, ISBN 978-3-901882-94-4
Publisher: IFIP
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1220639

A NEAT framework for application-awareness in SDN environments

Author(s): Ricardo Santos, Zdravko Bozakov, Simone Mangiante, Anna Brunstrom, Andreas Kassler
Published in: 2017 IFIP Networking Conference (IFIP Networking) and Workshops, 2017, Page(s) 1-2, ISBN 978-3-901882-94-4
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.23919/IFIPNetworking.2017.8264887

A NEAT framework for enhanced end-host integration in SDN environments

Author(s): Zdravko Bozakov, Simone Mangiante, Cristian Hernandez Benet, Anna Brunstrom, Ricardo Santos, Andreas Kassler, Donagh Buckley
Published in: 2017 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN), 2017, Page(s) 1-7, ISBN 978-1-5386-3285-7
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/NFV-SDN.2017.8169828

Evaluating CAIA delay gradient as a candidate for deadline-aware less-than-best-effort transport

Author(s): Tor Christian Tangenes, David A. Hayes, Andreas Petlund, David Ros
Published in: 2017 IFIP Networking Conference (IFIP Networking) and Workshops, 2017, Page(s) 1-6, ISBN 978-3-901882-94-4
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.23919/IFIPNetworking.2017.8264882

A NEAT Way to Browse the Web

Author(s): Felix Weinrank, Karl-Johan Grinnemo, Zdravko Bozakov, Anna Brunstrom, Thomas Dreibholz, Gorry Fairhurst, Per Hurtig, Naeem Khademi, Michael Tüxen
Published in: Proceedings of the Applied Networking Research Workshop on - ANRW '17, 2017, Page(s) 33-34, ISBN 9781-450351089
Publisher: ACM Press
DOI: 10.1145/3106328.3106335

On the Cost of Using Happy Eyeballs for Transport Protocol Selection

Author(s): Giorgos Papastergiou, Karl-Johan Grinnemo, Anna Brunstrom, David Ros, Michael Tüxen, Naeem Khademi, Per Hurtig
Published in: Proceedings of the 2016 workshop on Applied Networking Research Workshop - ANRW 16, 2016, Page(s) 45-51, ISBN 9781-450344432
Publisher: ACM Press
DOI: 10.1145/2959424.2959437

Start Me Up - Determining and Sharing TCP's Initial Congestion Window

Author(s): Safiqul Islam, Michael Welzl
Published in: Proceedings of the 2016 workshop on Applied Networking Research Workshop - ANRW 16, 2016, Page(s) 52-54, ISBN 9781-450344432
Publisher: ACM Press
DOI: 10.1145/2959424.2959440

A Datagram API for Evolving Networks Beyond 5G

Author(s): Tom Jones; Gorry Fairhurst; Eric Vyncke
Published in: European Conference on Networks and Communications 2017 (EUCnC), 6, 2017, ISBN 9781-538638736
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1220649

A framework for less than best effort congestion control with soft deadlines

Author(s): David A. Hayes, David Ros, Andreas Petlund, Iffat Ahmed
Published in: 2017 IFIP Networking Conference (IFIP Networking) and Workshops, 2017, Page(s) 1-9, ISBN 978-3-901882-94-4
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.23919/IFIPNetworking.2017.8264853

NEAT – A New, Evolutive API and Transport-Layer Architecture for the Internet

Author(s): K.-J. Grinnemo, T. Jones, G. Fairhurst, D. Ros, A. Brunstrom and P. Hurtig
Published in: 12th Swedish National Computer Networking Workshop (SNCNW 2016), 2016
Publisher: -

Transparent flow mapping for NEAT

Author(s): Felix Weinrank, Michael Tuxen
Published in: 2017 IFIP Networking Conference (IFIP Networking) and Workshops, 2017, Page(s) 1-6, ISBN 978-3-901882-94-4
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.23919/IFIPNetworking.2017.8264876

fling: A Flexible Ping for Middlebox Measurements

Author(s): Runa Barik, Michael Welzl, Ahmed Mustafa Elmokashfi, Stein Gjessing, Safiqul Islam
Published in: 2017 29th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC 29), 2017, Page(s) 134-142, ISBN 978-0-9883045-3-6
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.23919/ITC.2017.8064349

Alternative Handshake Mechanism for the Stream Control Transmission Protocol

Author(s): F. Weinrank, I. Rüngeler, M. Tüxen and E.P. Rathgeb
Published in: IFIP Networking 2018, 2018
Publisher: IFIP

A NEAT Approach to Mobile Communication

Author(s): Per Hurtig, Stefan Alfredsson, Anna Brunstrom, Kristian Evensen, Karl-Johan Grinnemo, Audun Fosselie Hansen, Tomasz Rozensztrauch
Published in: Proceedings of the Workshop on Mobility in the Evolving Internet Architecture - MobiArch '17, 2017, Page(s) 7-12, ISBN 9781-450350594
Publisher: ACM Press
DOI: 10.1145/3097620.3097622

Understanding multistreaming for web traffic: An experimental study

Author(s): M. Rajiullah, A. C. Mohideen, F. Weinrank, R. Secchi, G. Fairhurst, A. Brunstrom
Published in: 2017 IFIP Networking Conference (IFIP Networking) and Workshops, 2017, Page(s) 1-6, ISBN 978-3-901882-94-4
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.23919/IFIPNetworking.2017.8264875

Can WebRTC QoS Work? A DSCP Measurement Study

Author(s): R. Barik, M. Welzl, A. Elmokashfi, T. Dreibholz and S. Gjessing
Published in: 30th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC 30), 2018
Publisher: ITC

Towards a flexible Internet transport layer architecture

Author(s): Karl-Johan Grinnemo, Tom Jones, Gorry Fairhurst, David Ros, Anna Brunstrom, Per Hurtig
Published in: 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN), 2016, Page(s) 1-7, ISBN 978-1-4673-9882-4
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/LANMAN.2016.7548846

How to say that you're special: Can we use bits in the IPv4 header?

Author(s): Runa Barik, Michael Welzl and Ahmed Elmokashfi
Published in: Proceedings of the 2016 Applied Networking Research Workshop, 2016, Page(s) 68-70
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/2959424.2959442

Peer reviewed articles (3)

De-Ossifying the Internet Transport Layer: A Survey and Future Perspectives

Author(s): Papastergiou, G. and Fairhurst, G. and Ros, D. and Brunstrom, A. and Grinnemo, K.-J. and Hurtig, P. and Khademi, N. and Tüxen, M. and Welzl, M. and Damjanovic, D. and Mangiante, S.
Published in: IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, Volume: 19, Issue: 1, First quarter 2017, 2016, Page(s) 619-639, ISSN 1553-877X
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2016.2626780

Performance analysis of next generation web access via satellite

Author(s): Secchi, R. and Mohideen, A. C. and Fairhurst, G.
Published in: International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking, 2016, ISSN 1542-0981
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/sat.1201

NEAT: A Platform- and Protocol-Independent Internet Transport API

Author(s): Naeem Khademi, David Ros, Michael Welzl, Zdravko Bozakov, Anna Brunstrom, Gorry Fairhurst, Karl-Johan Grinnemo, David Hayes, Per Hurtig, Tom Jones, Simone Mangiante, Michael Tuxen, Felix Weinrank
Published in: IEEE Communications Magazine, 55/6, 2017, Page(s) 46-54, ISSN 0163-6804
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/mcom.2017.1601052