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TCP/ATM Experiences in the MAGIC Testbed

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Overview This paper describes performance measurements taken in the MAGIC gigabit testbed relating to the performance of TCP in wide area ATM networks. The behavior of TCP with and without cell level pacing is studied. In particular, this paper focuses on results that indicate that the TCP rate control mechanism alone is inadequate for congestion avoidance and control in wide-area gigabit networks. It also presents results showing that TCP augmented by cell-level pacing addresses these problems and allows the full bandwidth capacity to be utilized. These results demonstrate the viability of high performance distributed systems based on wide area ATM networks given the proper ATM traffic management infrastructure.

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Publisher	University of Kansas	File Format	PDF
Date Published	October 2004
Format	White Papers
Topics	ATM, TCP - IP

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