What is FAST TCP?
FAST TCP is an alternative congestion control algorithm in TCP. It is designed for high speed data transfers over large distance, e.g., tens of gigabyte files across the Atlantic. Our current implementation is in TCP on Linux platform, though the principles and design can be implemented in other contexts than TCP. It is built on theoretical work done since the late 1990s at Cambridge University, Melbourne University, Caltech, UCLA, University of Illinois, and University of Massachusetts, etc. The first prototype was demonstrated in SuperComputing Conference in November 2002 in collaboration with, and using the state-of-the-art infrastructure of, the High Energy Physics groups at Caltech, CERN and SLAC, with major support from DataTAG, StarLight, TeraGrid, SciNet, Cisco and Level(3). Good starting points for understanding FAST are: • FAST TCP: motivation, architecture, algorithm, performance by Cheng Jin, David X. Wei and Steven H. Low: IEEE Infocom, March 2004 . • FAST TCP: From Theory
