An experiment in latency reduction

Author

Touch, Joseph D. ; Farber, David J.

Author_Institution

USC/Inf. Sci. Inst., Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

12-16 Jun 1994

Firstpage

175

Abstract

Communication latency can be reduced by increasing bandwidth via a sender-based anticipation technique called Parallel Communication. The authors apply this method to anonymous FTP. Their analysis of log files indicates that latency can be reduced to 2 round-trip times, as small as 0.6 round-trip time/file, for a 7x increase in bandwidth. This technique applies to up to 95% of the FTP traffic. This method is expected to be especially useful in reducing latency in automated FTP access. Such as in the World-WideWorld-Wide Web

Keywords

information theory; parallel processing; protocols; telecommunication traffic; FTP traffic; World-WideWorld-Wide Web; automated FTP access; bandwidth; communication latency; latency reduction; log files; parallel communication; protocols; round-trip times; sender-based anticipation techniqu; sender-based anticipation technique; Algorithm design and analysis; Bandwidth; Computer networks; Contracts; Delay; Internet; Logic; Optical propagation; Spine; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

INFOCOM '94. Networking for Global Communications., 13th Proceedings IEEE

Conference_Location

Toronto, Ont.

Print_ISBN

0-8186-5570-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INFCOM.1994.337619

Filename

337619

Link To Document

https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=2215235