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A Performance Analysis of TCP and STP Implementations and Proposals for New QoS Classes for TCP/IP
Overview With a new United States Army initiative to exploit commercially developed information technology, there is a heightened interest in using Internet protocols over the military's geosynchronous satellite links. TCP is the dominant Internet protocol used for reliable data exchange, but its own design limits performance when used over long delay network links such as satellites. Initially this research set out to compare TCP with another proposed protocol, the Satellite Transport Protocol (STP). However through a series of tests, it was found that STP does not fulfill its claims of increased throughput over TCP and uncovered a flaw in STP's founding research. In addition, this paper proposes and demonstrates novel performance enhancing techniques that significantly improve transport protocol throughput.
| Publisher | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | File Format | |
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| Date Published | May 2003 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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