Modeling the Bandwidth Sharing Behavior of Congestion Controlled Flows

iii Acknowledgement I have been fortunate enough to have the help and support of a large number of people. I would especially like to thank my advisors Jonathan Walpole and Molly H. Shor, who have been extremely helpful in identifying my thesis topic, developing the ideas, publishing paper, construct the structure of this thesis, and for all other guidance throughout many years. I would also like to thank x The members of my thesis committee members, Professor Calton Pu and Wuchang Feng, for their insightful comments on my proposals, and the dissertation. I would like to thank Calton for his helps on many strategy points. Without his help, I would not finish this thesis. x Charles " Buck " Krasic, Ashvin Goel that have been working with me through a long way form DSRG, DISC, to SYSL, and all the members of the system software group, for their many useful and insightful discussions about networking and other random topics. Paques and others that brought a lot of fun to my student life in OGI.