# Homa
Real-Time Networking with Stanford’s HOMA Protocol
Presentation at the Storage Developers Conference (SDC) 2026 of SNIA, Santa Clara, CA, Sep 30, 2026 At SDC 2023 and SDC 2024, we presented Homa, a reliable datacenter transport-layer protocol…
John Ousterhout: “TCP is Dead!” at AI Engineer World’s Fair
John Ousterhout, Stanford Professor and author of “A Philosophy of Software Design”, turns our attention to the evolving nature of AI networking workloads and why traditional protocols like TCP and…
MLE Presents “Real-Time Networking with Stanford’s HOMA Protocol” at Storage Developers Conference 2026
The Storage Developers Conference (SDC) 2026 of SNIA, the Storage and Networking Industry Alliance, will be held Sept. 28-30 in Santa Clara, CA. There, MLE will present “Real-Time Networking with…
IANA added Stanford’s HOMA Protocol to IPv4
IANA, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, has added the HOMA protocol to the Internet Protocol IPv4. HOMA is a new Transport Layer Protocol designed by John Ousterhout, Stanford Univerity, to…
Complementing TCP with Homa, Stanford’s Reliable, Rapid Request-Response Protocol
Presentation at SNIA Storage Developers Conference, Santa Clara, CA, Sept. 16-18, 2024 At SDC 2023 last year, we presented Homa, a new datacenter protocol invented by John Ousterhout at Stanford…
SNIA Storage Developers Conference, Sept. 16-18, 2024 in Santa Clara, CA
The Storage Developers Conference (SDC) 2024 of SNIA, the Storage and Networking Industry Alliance, will be held Sept. 16-18 in Santa Clara, CA. There, MLE will present “Complementing TCP with…
TCP/IP for Real-Time Embedded Systems: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Presentation at the Embedded World 2024, Nuremberg, Germany, Apr. 9, 2024 Embedded systems such as in-vehicle networks, modern factory automation or autonomous robots, for example, are undergoing a major shift:…
MLE Presents “TCP/IP for Real-Time Embedded Systems: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” at Embedded World 2024
The Embedded World Conference 2024 will be held April 9-11 in Nuremberg, Germany. There, MLE will present “TCP/IP for Real-Time Embedded Systems: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.” Embedded…
How Bad is TCP? (And What Are the Alternatives?)
Presentation at SNIA Storage Developers Conference, Fremont, CA, Sept. 18-21, 2023 Tail latencies in networking tend to worry us all, whether we implement distributed storage and compute or whether we…