Making transport protocols fast

Author

Weaver, Alfred C.

Author_Institution

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

fYear

1991

fDate

14-17 Oct 1991

Firstpage

295

Lastpage

300

Abstract

An international group of researchers, led by Dr. G. Chesson at Silicon Graphics Inc., has developed a new transport+network protocol for modern distributed computing systems. Extant protocols (e.g. TCP, TP4, Delta-t, NETBLT, GAM-T-103, VMTP, URP) were first examined to understand their solutions to common data transfer problems. Then, a new protocol called XTP (Xpress Transfer Protocol) was developed which both reuses ideas known to be good and breaks new ground in the definition and delivery of communications services. XTP is specifically designed for implementation in hardware as the Protocol Engine which will connect to a commercial FDDI chipset. The author reports first on the philosophy underlying XTP´s design, and then on his experiences in producing a software implementation

Keywords

distributed processing; local area networks; protocols; Delta-t; FDDI; GAM-T-103; NETBLT; Protocol Engine; TCP; TP4; URP; VMTP; XTP; Xpress Transfer Protocol; distributed computing systems; software implementation; transport protocols; transport+network protocol; Aerospace engineering; Control systems; Delay; Distributed computing; Engines; Error analysis; Hardware; Laboratories; Silicon; Transport protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Local Computer Networks, 1991. Proceedings., 16th Conference on

Conference_Location

Minneapolis, MN

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2370-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LCN.1991.208078

Filename

208078