Reliable end-to-end communication in the tactical ATM environment

Author

Miller, Gregory J. ; Schult, Nancy L.

Author_Institution

Mitre Corp., McLean, VA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1996

fDate

21-24 Oct 1996

Firstpage

144

Abstract

Techniques for providing reliable end-to-end communication in the tactical ATM environment. Our simulation study considers enhancements to the physical layer, medium access control (MAC) sublayer, and the TCP protocol, while our testbed experiments focus solely on TCP extensions. In both cases, we measure the end-to-end performance as a function of delay and bit-error rate. We find that link-level automatic repeat request (ARQ) mechanisms, large TCP windows, and the use of selective acknowledgments can improve end-to-end throughput performance in the tactical ATM environment

Keywords

access protocols; asynchronous transfer mode; automatic repeat request; delays; error statistics; land mobile radio; military communication; telecommunication network reliability; transport protocols; ARQ; MAC sublayer; TCP protocol; bit-error rate; delay; end-to-end throughput performance; large TCP windows; link-level automatic repeat request mechanisms; medium access control sublayer; physical layer; reliable end-to-end communication; selective acknowledgments; tactical ATM environment; Automatic repeat request; Bandwidth; Data communication; Delay; Media Access Protocol; Physical layer; Quality of service; Telecommunication traffic; Testing; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Military Communications Conference, 1996. MILCOM '96, Conference Proceedings, IEEE

Conference_Location

McLean, VA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3682-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.1996.568602

Filename

568602