Please find below some references: Generally you can refer to: E. He, R. Kettimut, S. Hegde, Y. Gu, M. Welzl, and W. E. Allcock, Survey of Transport Protocols Other Than Standard TCP, GGF White paper Draft, 2003. But in particular: Parallel TCP: Improving throughput and maintaining fairness using parallel TCP, Hacker, T.J.; Noble, B.D.; Athey, B.D.; INFOCOM 2004. Twenty-third AnnualJoint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies Volume 4, 7-11 March 2004 Page(s):2480 - 2489 vol.4 XCP: D. Katabi, M. Handley, C. Rohrs. Congestion Control for High Bandwidth-Delay Product Networks. ACM SIGCOMM 2002. Tsunami: http://www.anml.iu.edu/projects.html; Regards +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Reza Nejabati Senior Research Officer Photonic Network Research Group ESE Department, University of Essex Colchester, UK CO4 3SQ Tel : +441206872404 Fax :+441206872900 -----Original Message----- From: owner-ghpn-wg@ggf.org [mailto:owner-ghpn-wg@ggf.org] On Behalf Of haresh Sent: 26 April 2005 07:56 To: 'ghpnwg@gridforum.org' Subject: [ghpn-wg] FW: Advanced communication Protocols Hi, While going through GFD-I-36.pdf document, I found reference to advanced communication protocols like XCP, Parallel TCP, and Tsunami. I would like to get more information on these protocols. Could you please give me reference to papers, documents, source code or email address of developers. Regards, Dr. Haresh S. Bhatt Scientist/Engineer SF ND/ITAG/SITAA Space Applications Centre Indian Space Research Organization Ahmedabad Phone: 079-2691 4731 (Desk) 4744,42 (lab1), 4375,76 (lab2)