End system optimizations for high-speed TCP

Author

Chase, Jeffrey S. ; Gallatin, Andrew J. ; Yocum, Kenneth G.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Duke Univ., Durham, NC, USA

Volume

39

Issue

4

fYear

2001

fDate

4/1/2001 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

68

Lastpage

74

Abstract

The delivered TCP performance on high-speed networks is often limited by the sending and receiving hosts, rather than by the network hardware or the TCP protocol implementation itself. In this case, systems can achieve higher bandwidth by reducing host overheads through a variety of optimizations above and below the TCP protocol stack, given support from the network interface. This article surveys the most important of these optimizations and illustrates their effects quantitatively with empirical results from an experimental network delivering up to 2 Gb/s of end-to-end TCP bandwidth

Keywords

network interfaces; optimisation; telecommunication networks; transport protocols; 2 Mbit/s; TCP bandwidth; TCP performance; TCP protocol stack; end system optimization; experimental network; high-speed TCP; high-speed networks; host overhead reduction; network interface; Bandwidth; Ethernet networks; Hardware; High-speed networks; Network interfaces; Next generation networking; Operating systems; Protocols; TCPIP; Throughput;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0163-6804

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/35.917506

Filename

917506