Reliable multi-destination transfer of data in a local area network

Author

Narayan, Ajit P.

Author_Institution

PRC Inc., McLean, VA, USA

fYear

1991

fDate

27-30 Mar 1991

Firstpage

681

Lastpage

687

Abstract

The author discusses some of the performance aspects of a connection oriented protocol such as TCP/IP or a connectionless protocol especially in terms of their ability to distribute identical data sets to two or more devices in a local area network (LAN). In particular, the author describes an adaptable and reliable multicast data transfer protocol. When compared to an efficient TCP/IP data distribution scheme, the multicast data transfer protocol reduces considerably the time needed to distribute the data and also reduces considerably the load on the LAN. Compared with the TCP/IP method the multicast data transfer protocol requires considerably lower CPU resources for the client but more CPU resources for each of the servers

Keywords

local area networks; protocols; reliability; CPU resources; LAN; TCP/IP; client; connection oriented protocol; connectionless protocol; identical data sets; local area network; reliable multicast data transfer protocol; reliable multidestination data transfer; servers; Broadcasting; Distributed computing; Distributed databases; Image databases; Intelligent networks; Local area networks; Multicast protocols; TCPIP; Throughput; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers and Communications, 1991. Conference Proceedings., Tenth Annual International Phoenix Conference on

Conference_Location

Scottsdale, AZ

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2133-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PCCC.1991.113880

Filename

113880