Implementation and performance evaluation of TCP Boston: a fragmentation-tolerant TCP protocol for ATM networks

Author

Bestavros, Azer ; Kim, Gitae

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Boston Univ., MA, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1997

fDate

8-12 Jun 1997

Firstpage

1049

Abstract

In this paper we overview the implementation of TCP Boston-a novel fragmentation-tolerant transport protocol, especially suited for ATM´s 53-byte cell-oriented switching architecture. TCP Boston integrates a standard TCP/IP protocol, such as Reno or Vegas, with a powerful redundancy control mechanism based on AIDA-an adaptive version of Rabin´s IDA dispersal and reconstruction algorithms. Our results show that TCP Boston improves TCP/IP´s performance over ATMs for both network-centric metrics (e.g., effective throughput) and application-centric metrics (e.g., response time)

Keywords

asynchronous transfer mode; telecommunication network management; transport protocols; 53-byte cell-oriented switching architecture; AIDA; ATM networks; IDA dispersal algorithm; IDA reconstruction algorithm; Reno; TCP Boston; TCP protocol; Vegas; application-centric metrics; effective throughput; fragmentation-tolerant transport protocol; network-centric metrics; performance evaluation; redundancy control mechanism; response time; standard TCP/IP protocol; Asynchronous transfer mode; Bandwidth; Circuits; Computer architecture; Computer science; Packet switching; Switches; TCPIP; Throughput; Transport protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 1997. ICC '97 Montreal, Towards the Knowledge Millennium. 1997 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Montreal, Que.

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3925-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.1997.610039

Filename

610039