A performance study of the ISO transport protocol

Author

Meister, Bemd W.

Author_Institution

Zurich Res. Lab., Ruschlikon, Switzerland

Volume

40

Issue

3

fYear

1991

fDate

3/1/1991 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

253

Lastpage

262

Abstract

The performance of different implementations of the ISO transport protocol class 4 on top of a connectionless link-layer protocol in the presence of transmission errors is studied by means of simulation. A main goal of the study is to find robust protocol versions yielding good performance for all possible combinations of implementations. The performance measure investigated is the throughput that can be achieved in transferring files between two stations over a local area or long-distance network. The results are compared to those obtained for the ISO transport protocol class 2 on top of a connection-oriented link-layer protocol. It is assumed that data and acknowledgement frames could be lost or corrupted by transmission errors. The results show that, at the sender side, retransmit all always yields higher performance than retransmit first, and, at the receiver side, store results in higher performance than discard

Keywords

performance evaluation; protocols; standards; ISO transport protocol class 2; ISO transport protocol class 4; acknowledgement frames; connection-oriented link-layer protocol; connectionless link-layer protocol; data frames; file transfer; local area network; long-distance network; performance measure; performance study; retransmit all; retransmit first; robust protocol versions; simulation; throughput; transmission errors; Analytical models; Degradation; Distributed computing; IEEE Computer Society Press; ISO; Local area networks; Performance analysis; Throughput; Transmission lines; Transport protocols;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computers, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9340

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/12.76402

Filename

76402