Experimental and simulation performance results of TCP/IP over high-speed ATM over ACTS

Author

Charalambos, Charalambous P. ; Lazarou, Georgios K. ; Frost, Victor S. ; Evans, Joseph ; Jonkman, Roelof

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Kansas Univ., Lawrence, KS, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1998

fDate

7-11 Jun 1998

Firstpage

72

Abstract

To assist in the design and understanding of future global networks, this paper describes the practical and simulation experiences gained from a TCP/IP on ATM network over a high speed satellite link and presents performance comparison studies of such networks with the same host/traffic configurations over local area (LAN) and wide area (WAN) networks. It was found that the satellite systems deliver performance similar to the terrestrial networks regardless of their path latencies in cases where the communication channels exhibit a low bit error rate (BER). NASA´s Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS), with its special characteristics and high data rate satellite channels, and the ACTS ATM Internetwork (AAI) were used in these experiments to deliver broadband traffic. Network performance tests were carried out using application-level software (ttcp, Netspec) on OC-3 and OC-12 ATM satellite links

Keywords

SONET; asynchronous transfer mode; digital simulation; local area networks; performance evaluation; satellite communication; transport protocols; wide area networks; ACTS; ATM Internetwork; ATM network; Advanced Communications Technology Satellite; BER; LAN; NASA; Netspec; OC-12 link; OC-3 link; SONET; TCP/IP; WAN; application-level software; broadband traffic; communication channels; experimental results; global networks; high speed satellite link; high-speed ATM; host/traffic configurations; local area networks; low bit error rate; network performance tests; path latencies; satellite channels; simulation performance results; terrestrial networks; ttcp; wide area networks; Artificial satellites; Bit error rate; Communication channels; Communications technology; Delay; Local area networks; TCPIP; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control; Wide area networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 1998. ICC 98. Conference Record. 1998 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Atlanta, GA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4788-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.1998.682589

Filename

682589