Publications and Standards Contributions
Details of these publications can also be found on my Google Scholar page, or in the University of Glasgow Institutional Repository. However, please note that this page is the authoritative list of my publications. Internet-drafts are omitted from this page, but are listed in the yearly indexes, and on my standards page.
2013
- Fung Po Tso, Gregg Hamilton, Rene Weber, Colin Perkins, and Dimitrios P. Pezaros, Longer is Better: Exploiting Path Diversity in Data Center Networks, Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Philadelphia, PA, USA, July 2013.
2012
- Paul Jakma, Marcin Orczyk, Colin Perkins, and Marwan Fayed, Distributed k-core Decomposition of Dynamic Graphs, Poster presented at the ACM CoNEXT Student Workshop, Nice, France, December 2012. DOI:10.1145/2413247.2413272
- Tom Phelan, Gorry Fairhurst, and Colin Perkins, DCCP-UDP: A Datagram Congestion Control Protocol UDP Encapsulation for NAT Traversal, Internet Engineering Task Force, November 2012, RFC 6773.
- Martin Ellis, Dimitrios P. Pezaros, Theodore Kypraios, and Colin Perkins, Modelling Packet Loss in RTP-based Streaming Video for Residential Users, Proceedings of the 37th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, Clearwater, FL, USA, October 2012. DOI:10.1109/LCN.2012.6423613
- Neil Alexander Twigg, Marwan Fayed, Colin Perkins, Dimitrios Pezaros, and Posco Tso, User-level Data Center Tomography, Poster presented at the ACM SIGCOMM Conference, Helsinki, Finland, August 2012. DOI:10.1145/2342356.2342380
- Magnus Westerlund, Ingemar Johansson, Colin Perkins, Piers O'Hanlon, and Ken Carlberg, Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) for RTP over UDP, Internet Engineering Task Force, August 2012, RFC 6679.
- Varun Singh, Jörg Ott and Colin Perkins, Congestion Control for Interactive Media: Control Loops & APIs, Internet Architecture Board (IAB)/Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) Workshop on Congestion Control for Interactive Real-Time Communication, Vancouver, Canada, July 2012.
- Alejandra Soni García, Jörg Ott, Martin Ellis, and Colin Perkins, Virtual RTCP: A Case Study of Monitoring and Repair for UDP-based IPTV Systems, Proceedings of the 19th International Packet Video Workshop, Munich, Germany, May 2012. Best student paper. DOI:10.1109/PV.2012.6229743
- Martin Ellis, Dimitrios Pezaros, and Colin Perkins, Performance Analysis of AL-FEC for RTP-based Streaming Video Traffic to Residential Users, Proceedings of the 19th International Packet Video Workshop, Munich, Germany, May 2012. DOI:10.1109/PV.2012.6229737
- Colin Perkins and Jean-Marc Valin, Guidelines for the use of Variable Bit Rate Audio with Secure RTP, Internet Engineering Task Force, March 2012, RFC 6562.
- Stephen Strowes and Colin Perkins, Harnessing Internet Topological Stability in Thorup-Zwick Compact Routing, Proceedings of IEEE Infocom 2012, Orlando, FL, USA, March 2012. DOI:10.1109/INFCOM.2012.6195651
2011
- Martin Ellis, Stephen Strowes, and Colin Perkins, An Experimental Study of Client-Side Spotify Peering Behaviour, Proceedings of the 36th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, Bonn, Germany, October 2011. DOI:10.1109/LCN.2011.6115205
- Magnus Westerlund and Colin Perkins, IANA Registry for Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE) Options, Internet Engineering Task Force, July 2011, RFC 6336.
- Ali C. Begen, Colin Perkins, and Dan Wing, Guidelines for Choosing RTP Control Protocol (RTCP) Canonical Names (CNAMEs), Internet Engineering Task Force, April 2011, RFC 6222.
- Stephen Strowes, Graham Mooney, and Colin Perkins, Compact Routing on the Internet AS-Graph, Proceedings of the 14th IEEE Global Internet Symposium, Shanghai, China, April 2011. DOI:10.1109/INFCOMW.2011.5928931
- Pasi Sarolahti, Jörg Ott, Karthik Budigere, and Colin Perkins Poor Man's Content Centric Networking (with TCP), Technical Report Aalto-ST 5/2011, Aalto University, March 2011.
- Martin Ellis, Colin Perkins, and Dimitrios Pezaros, End-to-End and Network-Internal Measurements on Real-Time Traffic to Residential Users, Proceedings of ACM Multimedia Systems 2011, San Jose, CA, USA, February 2011. DOI:10.1145/1943552.1943567
2010
- Colin Perkins and Thomas Schierl, Rapid Synchronisation of RTP Flows, Internet Engineering Task Force, November 2010, RFC 6051.
- Jörg Ott and Colin Perkins, Guidelines for Extending the RTP Control Protocol (RTCP), Internet Engineering Task Force, September 2010, RFC 5968.
- Colin Perkins, RTP and the Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP), Internet Engineering Task Force, April 2010, RFC 5762.
- Colin Perkins and Magnus Westerlund, Multiplexing RTP Data and Control Packets on a Single Port, Internet Engineering Task Force, April 2010, RFC 5761.
- Ali C. Begen, Colin Perkins, and Jörg Ott, On the Use of RTP for Monitoring and Fault Isolation in IPTV, IEEE Network Magazine, Volume 24, Number 2, March/April 2010. DOI:10.1109/MNET.2010.5430139
- Ali C. Begen, Colin Perkins, and Jörg Ott, On the Scalability of RTCP-Based Network Tomography for IPTV Services, 7th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, Special Session on IPTV Toward Seamless Infotainment, Las Vegas, NV, USA, January 2010. DOI:10.1109/CCNC.2010.5421780
- Martin Ellis and Colin Perkins, Packet Loss Characteristics of IPTV-like Traffic on Residential Links, 7th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, Workshop on Emerging Internet Video Technologies, Las Vegas, NV, USA, January 2010. DOI:10.1109/CCNC.2010.5421735
2009
- Stephen Strowes and Colin Perkins, Deterministic, Reduced-Visibility Inter-Domain Forwarding, Extended Abstract, Proceedings of the ACM CoNEXT student workshop, Rome, Italy, December 2009. DOI:10.1145/1658997.1659003
- Stephen Strowes and Colin Perkins, Randomness for Reduced-State Inter-Domain Forwarding, Extended abstract, Proceedings of the Trilogy Future Internet Summer School, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, August 2009.
- Aminu Mohammed, Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, Lewis M. Mackenzie, Colin Perkins, and Jamal-Deen Abdulai, Probabilistic Counter-Based Route Discovery for Mobile Ad hoc Networks, in Proceedings of the 5th International Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing Conference, Leipzig, Germany, June 2009. DOI:10.1145/1582379.1582672
2008
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2007
- Cristian Zamfir, Colin Perkins and Peter Dickman, Live Migration of Virtual Block Devices, Poster presented at EuroSys2007, Lisbon, Portugal, March 2007.
2006
- Mark Handley, Van Jacobson and Colin Perkins, SDP: Session Description Protocol, Internet Engineering Task Force, July 2006, RFC 4566.
- Ladan Gharai, Tom Lehman, Alvaro Saurin and Colin Perkins, Experiences with High Definition Interactive Video Conferencing, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Toronto, Canada, July 2006. DOI:10.1109/ICME.2006.262565
- Colin Perkins and Ladan Gharai, RTP and the Datagram Congestion Control Protocol, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Toronto, Canada, July 2006. DOI:10.1109/ICME.2006.262832
- Ladan Gharai and Colin Perkins, High Definition Conferencing: Present, Past and Future (extended abstract), Proceedings of the 6th Annual AccessGrid Retreat, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, May 2006.
- Ladan Gharai and Colin Perkins, Holographic and 3D Teleconferencing and Visualization: Implications for Terabit Networked Applications, Proceedings of the IEEE Infocom 2006 High-Speed Networking Workshop: The Terabits Challenge, Barcelona, Spain, April, 2006. DOI:10.1109/INFOCOM.2006.29
- Colin Perkins, RTP Payload Format for Uncompressed Video: Additional Colour Sampling Modes, Internet Engineering Task Force, February 2006, RFC 4421.
2005
- Stephen Strowes and Colin Perkins, Orta - an Overlay for Real Time Applications, Technical Report TR-2005-323, Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, November 2005.
- Ladan Gharai and Colin Perkins, RTP Payload Format for Uncompressed Video, Internet Engineering Task Force, September 2005, RFC 4175.
- Colin Perkins, Building Adaptive Applications: On The Need For Congestion Control, Invited paper presented at the 17th SPIE/IS&T International Symposium on Electronic Imaging, San Jose, CA, USA, January 2005. DOI:10.1117/12.592797
2004
- Ladan Gharai, Colin Perkins and Tom Lehman, Packet Reordering, High Speed Networks and Transport Protocol Performance, Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN'04), Chicago, IL, USA, October 2004. DOI:10.1109/ICCCN.2004.1401591
- Colin Perkins and Ladan Gharai, Real-time Collaborative Environments and the Grid, Proceedings of the Workshop on Advanced Collaborative Environments (WACE'04), Nice, France, September 2004.
2003
- Peter Bellows, Jaroslav Flidr, Ladan Gharai and Colin Perkins, Secure HDTV Transport Over IP Networks, Proceedings 6th International Conference on Military and Aerospace Programmable Logic Devices, Washington, DC, USA, September 2003.
- Peter Bellows, Jaroslav Flidr, Ladan Gharai, Colin Perkins, Pawel Chodowiec and Kris Gaj, IPsec-Protected Transport of HDTV over IP, Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2003, LNCS 2778. DOI:10.1007/978-3-540-45234-8_84 Reprinted in P. Lysaght & W. Rosentiel, New Algorithms, Architectures and Applications for Reconfigurable Computing, Springer, 2005, ISBN 1-4020-3127-0. DOI:10.1007/1-4020-3128-9_15
- Ladan Gharai, Colin Perkins, Gary Goncher, and Allison Mankin, RTP Payload Format for Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) 292M Video, Internet Engineering Task Force, March 2003, RFC 3497.
2002
- Ladan Gharai, Colin Perkins, Ron Riley and Allison Mankin, Large Scale Video Conferencing: A Digital Amphitheatre, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems, San Francisco, CA, USA, September 2002.
- Ladan Gharai and Colin Perkins, Implementing Congestion Control in the Real World, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Lausanne, Switzerland, August 2002. DOI:10.1109/ICME.2002.1035802
- Ladan Gharai, Colin Perkins and Allison Mankin, Large Group Teleconferencing: Techniques and Considerations, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Internet Computing, Las Vegas, NV, USA, June 2002.
- Jörg Ott, Colin Perkins, and Dirk Kutscher, A Message Bus for Local Coordination, Internet Engineering Task Force, April 2002, RFC 3259.
- Colin Perkins, Ladan Gharai, Tom Lehman and Allison Mankin, Experiments with Delivery of HDTV over IP Networks, Proceedings of the 12th International Packet Video Workshop, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, April 2002.
2001
- Colin Perkins, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Henning Schulzrinne, RTP Testing Strategies, Internet Engineering Task Force, August 2001, RFC 3158.
- Ladan Gharai, Colin Perkins and Allison Mankin, Scaling Video Conferencing through Spatial Tiling, Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV 2001), Port Jefferson, NY, USA, June 2001. DOI:10.1145/378344.378364
- Colin Perkins and Allison Mankin, Diversinet: Embracing heterogeneity in future network services, Workshop on New Visions for Large-Scale Networks: Research and Applications, Vienna, VA, USA, March 2001.
2000
- Jörg Ott, Dirk Kutscher and Colin Perkins, The Message Bus: A Platform for Component-based Conferencing Applications, Proceedings of the CSCW2000 workshop on Component-based Groupware, Philadelphia, PA, USA, December 2000.
- Mark Handley, Colin Perkins, and Edmund Whelan, Session Announcement Protocol, Internet Engineering Task Force, October 2000, RFC 2974.
- Orion Hodson, Colin Perkins and Vicky Hardman, Skew detection and compensation for Internet audio applications, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, New York, NY, USA, July 2000. DOI:10.1109/ICME.2000.871096
- Jon Crowcroft, Saleem Bhatti and Colin Perkins, What is the place for user-network signalling in the 21st century?, Proceedings of the 16th UK Teletraffic Symposium, Harlow, UK, 22-24 May 2000.
- Colin Perkins and Jon Crowcroft, Notes on the use of RTP for shared workspace applications, ACM Computer Communication Review, Volume 30, Number 2, April 2000. DOI:10.1145/505680.505685
- Colin Perkins and Jon Crowcroft, Effects of Interleaving on RTP Header Compression, Proceedings of IEEE Infocom 2000, Tel Aviv, Israel, March 2000. DOI:10.1109/INFCOM.2000.832179
1999
- Mark Handley and Colin Perkins, Guidelines for Writers of RTP Payload Format Specifications, Internet Engineering Task Force, December 1999, RFC 2736.
- Ian Brown, Colin Perkins and Jon Crowcroft, Watercasting: Distributed Watermarking of Multicast Media, Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Networked Group Communication, Pisa, Italy, November 1999. DOI:10.1007/978-3-540-46703-8_18
1998
- Colin Perkins, Orion Hodson and Vicky Hardman, A Survey of Packet Loss Recovery Techniques for Streaming Media, IEEE Network Magazine, September/October 1998, DOI:10.1109/65.730750. Reprinted in K. Jeffay and H. J. Zhang (Editors), Readings in Multimedia Computing and Networking, Morgan Kaufmann, 2001.
- Colin Perkins and Orion Hodson, Options for Repair of Streaming Media, Internet Engineering Task Force, June 1998, RFC 2354.
- Martina Angela Sasse, Louise Clark and Colin Perkins, Piloting IP Multicast Conferencing over SuperJANET: The PIPVIC Project, In proceedings of the UKERNA Networkshop, Aberdeen, UK, April 1998.
1997
- Colin Perkins, Isidor Kouvelas, Orion Hodson, Vicky Hardman, Mark Handley, Jean-Chrysostome Bolot, Andres Vega-Garcia, and Sacha Fosse-Parisis, RTP Payload for Redundant Audio Data, Internet Engineering Task Force, September 1997, RFC 2198.
- Colin Perkins, Vicky Hardman, Isidor Kouvelas, and Martina Angela Sasse, Multicast Audio - The Next Generation, Proceedings of INET'97, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, June 1997.
- Colin Perkins and Jon Crowcroft, Real-Time Audio and Video Transmission of IEEE Globecom'96 over the Internet, Presented at the IEEE Engineer's Conference at Networld+Interop, Las Vegas, NV, USA, May 1997.
- Colin Perkins and Jon Crowcroft, Real-Time Audio and Video Transmission of IEEE Globecom'96 over the Internet, IEEE Communications Magazine, Volume 35, Number 4, April 1997. DOI:10.1109/35.570716
1996
- Colin Perkins, Reliability Modelling and Analysis of Real-Time Systems, DPhil thesis, University of York, September 1996.
1995
- Colin Perkins and Andy Tyrrell, A New Markov Model for Dependability and Temporal Evaluation of Hard Real-Time Systems, In proceedings of the 7th European Simulation Symposium, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremburg, Germany, October 1995.
- Colin Perkins and Andy Tyrrell, Reliability Models for Hard Real-Time Systems, In proceedings of the 2nd IMA Conference on the Mathematics of Dependable Systems, York, UK, September 1995.