Title :
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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/ICC.1997.610039
