Some podcast radios

The following are some cool Podcasts about development on different technologes: Java, Android, etc.

Software Engineering Radio usually performs interviews with authors or professionals from different backgrounds in software engineering (development, databases, Java technology). This radio is sponsored by the IEEE Software magazine.

Android Weekly performs a weekly review of Android news from new Apps to insights from Google

Android Devcast a serie of french podcast by PAUG (Paris Android User Group) on everything concerning Android development.

Java Posse performs good news cast about Java technologies (and even Scala), frameworks and the JVM. Some Googlers are part of the host.

Lostcast is a podcast by two indie game developers that talk about their experience with HTML5 based games development, advanced technics, interviews with industry pioneers.

Talking Big Data is hosted by IBMer David Pittman, it addresses everything related to Big Data, analytics and related technologies.

Hacker Public Radio is hosted by a long list of members and has the particularity of having the content produced by the community of listeners, the radio abords different areas especially on the open source community (conferences or projects news, etc.).

You can find more by visiting this StackOverflow thread. or on Vogel's blog.

All these podcasts can be found on podbay.fm, there you can also find more podcast radios.

Multi-path TCP invited at Google

MPTCP (Multipath TCP) is an extension of TCP to handle multiple paths between two endpoints. An IETF working group has recently been created to specify a multipath protocol for the transport layer.
MPTCP is designed with three major goals:

1. Improve throughput: the performance of a multipat how should be at least as good as this of a single path how on the best route.
2. Do no harm: a multi-path how should not take up any more capacity on any one of its paths than a single path how using that route.
3. Balance congestion: a multi-path how should move as much tra c as possible away from the most congested paths.

Costin Raiciu one of people working in MPTCP at its early age, along with Christoph Paasch who is part of the team who made a Linux kernel patch for using MPTCP, they made a Google Talk for presenting MPTCP, the motivation behind, the design of this communication protocol and  its congestion control.

A project was made on NS-3 simulator for enabling researchers to study the behaviour of MPCTP transport protocol in different scenarios. Here is a link to the Google project hosting the MPCTP code. Also an active discussion group can be found here.

For further reading, here is a list of some publications on MPCTP:

• Control of multipath TCP and optimization of multipath routing in the Internet, Damon Wischik, Mark Handley and Costin Raiciu, Proc. NetCOOP 2009.
• Bachir Chihani, Denis Collange, "A Multipath TCP model for ns-3 simulator," Accepted for publication in Workshop on ns-3 held in conjunction with SIMUTools 2011, Barcelona, Spain 2011.