Experience with the Xpress transfer protocol

Author

Simoncic, Robert ; Weaver, Alfred C. ; Colvin, M. Alex

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Virginia Univ., Charlottesville, VA, USA

fYear

1990

fDate

30 Sep-3 Oct 1990

Firstpage

123

Lastpage

131

Abstract

The Xpress transfer protocol (XTP), a transport and network layer protocol suitable for use as a SAFENET transfer service in the US Navy´s emerging survivable adaptable fiber optic embedded network (SAFENET) specification, is described. The background protocol, the implementation environment, the communications architecture, the user interface, some working XTP demonstration programs, and some measured performance results are described. The experience with XTP shows that the implementation is stable; operational in PC and VME bus environments; and capable of being transmitted reliably over Ethernet, token ring, and fiber distributed data interface (FDDI) networks

Keywords

optical links; performance evaluation; protocols; standards; token networks; user interfaces; Ethernet; SAFENET transfer service; VME bus environments; XTP; Xpress transfer protocol; communications architecture; fiber distributed data interface; performance results; survivable adaptable fiber optic embedded network; token ring; transport and network layer protocol; user interface; Application software; Computer architecture; Computer networks; FDDI; Laboratories; Local area networks; Military computing; Optical fibers; Token networks; Transport protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Local Computer Networks, 1990. Proceedings., 15th Conference on

Conference_Location

Minneapolis, MN

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2109-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LCN.1990.128648

Filename

128648