From: Ivan B. <iv...@cs...> - 2006-07-18 05:57:21
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Hello, We've finally got around to releasing VFER-0.97. This timely release includes the long awaited delay based congestion control. The default parameters are a GAIN of 8 packets/RTT and a TARGET queueing delay of 8ms. The code has been run over LAN and WAN links and performs relatively well for a user space implementation with experimental CC. The release also includes quite a number of changes to the VFER protocol including data range vector nacks instead of fragment vector nacks, an AVL binary tree delay history data structure, and one of this summer of code's student's work implementing authentication and encryption within VFER. That code still needs work but it has already been merged into the main branch and testing is under way for the next release which will include authentication support over existing user SSH keys. Many bugs have been squashed and features added. There are links to the sources .tar.gz file from the VFER website- http:// vfer.sf.net thanks all, ivan. |