Evaluation of transport protocols for web services

Author

Johnsen, Frank T. ; Bloebaum, Trude Hafsoe ; Avlesen, Morten ; Spjelkavik, Skage ; Vik, Bjorn

Author_Institution

Norwegian Defence Res. Establ., Norway

fYear

2013

fDate

7-9 Oct. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Web services can be used as a middleware for standardized, interoperable machine-to-machine communication. However, the technology has communication overhead, leading to a need to investigate ways to optimize its resource use when applying the technology in limited capacity networks. There exist several approaches to optimization, and in this paper we investigate potential gains from replacing the commonly used HTTP/TCP transport for Web services with alternative transport protocols. We study four different protocols (TCP, UDP, SCTP, and AMQP) for conveying Web services traffic, evaluating them in an emulator under typical civil and military networking conditions.

Keywords

Web services; middleware; military computing; transport protocols; HTTP-TCP transport; Web services traffic; civil networking conditions; communication overhead; interoperable machine-to-machine communication; limited capacity networks; middleware; military networking conditions; transport protocols; Bandwidth; Payloads; Reliability; Simple object access protocol; Transport protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Military Communications and Information Systems Conference (MCC), 2013

Conference_Location

St.-Malo

Print_ISBN

978-83-934848-8-1

Type

conf

Filename

6695528