LBNL's Network Research Group

Welcome to the home page of the Network Research Group (NRG) of the Information and Computing Sciences Division (ICSD) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) in Berkeley, California.

Past and Present Group Staff

Sally Floyd (retired from ICIR)
Craig Leres
Vern Paxson (ICSI, UCB and Corelight)
Van Jacobson (at PARC)
Kevin Fall
Steven McCanne (now at Riverbed)

But don't worry, all of the old email addresses will still work...

Network Research Group documents include:

Papers
Talks
Email
RFCs and Internet Drafts with NRG authors

Software Packages via anonymous ftp:

MBONE tools: We have developed several multiparty conferencing tools and protocols based on the lightweight IP Multicast delivery model:

vat, the audio conferencing tool;
vic, the video conferencing tool;
wb, the shared whiteboard; and
sd, the session announcement tool.

Network tools include:

tcpdump, the protocol packet capture and dumper program;
libpcap, the Packet Capture library;
arpwatch, the ethernet monitor program; for keeping track of ethernet/ip address pairings,
traceroute for printing the route packets take to a network host, and
pathchar for inferring the characteristics of Internet paths.

Other software packages include

bpf, the Berkeley Packet Filter;
cslip, the compressed serial line IP package;
and others available via anonymous ftp from our anonymous ftp server.

Newer packages are found in the downloads tree:

https://ee.lbl.gov/downloads/

Research projects with their own web pages include:

CBQ (Class-Based Queueing, including link-sharing);
ECN (Explicit Congestion Notification);
RED gateways (Random Early Detection Gateways);
SRM (Scalable Reliable Multicast);
the VINT project, based on the UCB/LBNL Network Simulator ns ( ns-1, ns-2); and
Adaptive Web Caching ;

Past research projects with their own web pages:

EPD (Early Packet Discard, a packet discard strategy for ATM switches);
SACK TCP (Selective Acknowledgements).
Measurement-based Admissions Control Procedures for Controlled-Load traffic.

Other:

We maintain the Internet Traffic Archive, which includes some of our traces of network traffic.
The Network Research Group is a participant in the Collaborative Advanced Internet Research Network (CAIRN).
The Network Research Group Clip File, in progress, for our funding agencies...

Directions to LBNL and to the NRG offices.

See the file COPYRIGHTS for copyright information about documents.

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Last updated: August 2009

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