Time flies! The last year's barely passed and here we are again - another Google Summer of Code. Even though the deadline for student's submissions is less than 24 hours ahead, I'd still take the opportunity to call anyone interested, anywhere in the world, to submit a proposal - it's fun to participate!
Category Archives: Summer of code
Updated TCP Proposals and FreeBSD
There are a number of proposals for improving TCP performance coming out of Google that have some implications for FreeBSD. These proposals have taken the form of a group of IETF proposals, RFCs, patches to the Linux kernel, and research publications. A nice summary of the different initiatives is available from Lets Make TCP Faster on the Google Code Blog.
TCP Fast Open by Radhakrishnan, Cheng, Chu, Jain, and Raghavan is based on the observation that modern web services are dominated by TCP flows so short that they terminate a few round trips after handshaking. This means that the 3-way TCP handshake is a signi�cant source of latency for such flows, and they describe a new mechanism for secure data exchange during the initial handshake to reduce some of the round-trip network transmission and associated latency for such short TCP transfers. This work shares many goals and challenges with T/TCP, which was previously in FreeBSD but suffered from some security vulnerabilities.
David Malone posted some thoughts on my Google+ post about how FreeBSD could implement the various changes. Maybe we could have some Summer of Code students work in this area this summer?
TCP Fast Open by Radhakrishnan, Cheng, Chu, Jain, and Raghavan is based on the observation that modern web services are dominated by TCP flows so short that they terminate a few round trips after handshaking. This means that the 3-way TCP handshake is a signi�cant source of latency for such flows, and they describe a new mechanism for secure data exchange during the initial handshake to reduce some of the round-trip network transmission and associated latency for such short TCP transfers. This work shares many goals and challenges with T/TCP, which was previously in FreeBSD but suffered from some security vulnerabilities.
David Malone posted some thoughts on my Google+ post about how FreeBSD could implement the various changes. Maybe we could have some Summer of Code students work in this area this summer?
Two FreeBSD Summer of Code projects
FreeBSD has 17 Google Summer of Code projects this year and most of them look very interesting! As I am involved as a mentor or co-mentor in two of those, I would like to describe them here.
Two FreeBSD Summer of Code projects
FreeBSD has 17 Google Summer of Code projects this year and most of them look very interesting! As I am involved as a mentor or co-mentor in two of those, I would like to describe them here.
Google Summer of Code 2011
As probably everyone knows by now, Google Summer of Code 2011 is announced! As in previous years, FreeBSD is expected to have a presence and this is a great opportunity for every student interested in FreeBSD to get involved and get payed doing so! FreeBSD has a pile of ideas page and I'd like to promote some of those I think are interesting.
Google Summer of Code 2011
As probably everyone knows by now, Google Summer of Code 2011 is announced! As in previous years, FreeBSD is expected to have a presence and this is a great opportunity for every student interested in FreeBSD to get involved and get payed doing so! FreeBSD has a pile of ideas page and I'd like to promote some of those I think are interesting.