Short Messages

  • Damon Wischik | University College London

This talk has three purposes. The first is to explain to a general audience what is involved in retrieving a web page or performing some other complex network task, and what can make it slow, and why the problem of slowness is likely to get worse as networked applications become more complex. The second is to describe to those who program networked applications certain facts that we have learnt from modelling communication networks, which may allow more efficient applications to be written. The third is to describe to network modellers an interesting class of problems relating to algorithm design for communication networks.

http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/D.Wischik/Research/shortmsg.html

Speaker Details

Damon Wischik is in the computer science department at University College London, where he has held a Royal Society university research fellowship since 2004. Prior to this he was a research fellow in the Statistical Laboratory at Cambridge University, where he completed his PhD in 2000. His research is on mathematical modelling of the Internet, including: queuing theory and buffer sizing for TCP, multipath routing, packet scheduling for switches, peer selection and congestion control for p2p networks.

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