U.S.-New Zealand Cooperative Research: Distributed ComputingTheory and Practice

这笔奖金将部分用于支付华盛顿大学计算机科学与工程系理查德·拉德纳博士与尤恩·坦佩罗博士在新西兰惠灵顿维多利亚大学进行研究时的生活费。这两位研究人员计划根据最近的理论工作，研究在计算机网络的开放系统互连(OSI)模型中设计端到端传输层协议的相关问题。新的理论结果为解决这一问题提出了一类新的有效协议的可能性。这些协议将通过分析和实验探索哪些设计变化最有可能实际实施来进行研究。那些最有希望的将在Unix下使用网际协议在受控环境中实施。这项工作汇集了坦佩罗博士在系统研究方面和拉德纳博士在理论研究方面的专业知识。这项合作活动建立在拉德纳博士目前由国家科学基金会支持的分布式和并行计算工作(CCR-9108314)的基础上。拉德纳前往新西兰的旅行费用由1992-1993年的富布赖特旅行补助金支付。

This award will partially cover cost-of-living expenses for Dr. Richard Ladner of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at University of Washington while he is conducting research at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand with Dr. Ewan Tempero. These two researchers plan to investigate the problems associated with designing an end-to-end transport layer protocol in the Open Systems Interconnect (OSI) model of a computer network in the light of recent theoretical work. The new theoretical results raise the possibility of a new class of efficient protocols for this problem. The protocols will be investigated by analytically and experimentally exploring which design variations have the best chance of practical implementation. Those with most promise will be implemented under Unix using the Internetwork Protocol in a controlled environment. This work brings together the expertise of Dr. Tempero in systems research and Dr. Ladner in theoretical research. This cooperative activity builds on Dr. Ladner's current NSF supported work in distributed and parallel computing (CCR-9108314). Ladner's travel expenses to New Zealand are being covered under a 1992- 1993 Fulbright Travel Grant.