PSC and Cisco Researchers Author Extended
PITTSBURGH, October 24, 2007 — Researchers from PSC's Advanced Networking group in collaboration with Cisco Systems have proposed a new Internet standard to help diagnose and resolve network performance problems. The document - "TCP Extended Statistics MIB," by PSC researchers Matt Mathis and John Heffner and Rajiv Raghunarayan of Cisco - describes extended performance statistics for TCP (transmission control protocol), a core software protocol that underlies the majority of Internet applications.
With the performance statistics defined by this document, diagnostic tools can - in situations of poor network performance - directly ask TCP why it is slow and gather information on the nature of the problem.