Performance of UDP and TCP communication on personal computers

Author

Milanovic, Andro ; Srbljic, Sinisa ; Sruk, Vlado

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. Eng. & Comput., Zagreb Univ., Croatia

Volume

1

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

286

Abstract

The number of personal computers (PCs) in Internet based information systems has been rapidly increasing during recent years. Designers are trying to improve the performance by choosing the appropriate hardware and software components of PCs that are running Internet based information systems. However, little research has been done to find how different hardware and software components of PCs affect the performance of the two most commonly used protocols for transferring data on the Internet, TCP and UDP. This paper compares data transmission speed for three different operating systems: Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0 Workstation and Linux 2.1.132. Three different hardware configurations based on Intel 486 DX2, Intel Pentium, and Intel Celeron A processors are also compared. Finally, we show how data packet size affects the communication speed

Keywords

Internet; microcomputers; operating systems (computers); performance evaluation; remote procedure calls; transport protocols; Intel 486 DX2; Intel Pentium; Internet based information systems; Linux 2.1.132; TCP communication; UDP communication; Windows 95; Windows NT 4.0 Workstation; communication speed; data packet size; data transmission speed; hardware components; ntel Celeron A processors; operating system; personal computers; protocols; software components; Data communication; Hardware; Information systems; Internet; Microcomputers; Operating systems; Personal communication networks; Protocols; Software performance; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrotechnical Conference, 2000. MELECON 2000. 10th Mediterranean

Conference_Location

Lemesos

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6290-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MELCON.2000.880422

Filename

880422