TY - JOUR
T1 - The MultiStream Protocol
T2 - A Highly Flexible High-Speed Transport Protocol
AU - La Porta, Thomas F.
AU - Schwartz, Mischa
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received February 14, 1992; revised July 15, 1992. The work of M. Schwartz was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant CDR-88-11111 to the Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research. This paper represents a portion of a Ph.D. dissertation submitted to the Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, by T. F. LaPorta, in May 1992. This paper was presented at the 4th IFIP Conference on High Performance Networking (HPN’92), December 1992, and extensions will be presented at IEEE INFOCOM’93. T. F. LaPorta is with AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ 07733.
PY - 1993/5
Y1 - 1993/5
N2 - This paper presents a transport layer protocol designed to meet the wide-ranging needs of high-speed applications. The protocol is feature-rich, yet since it is designed to be implemented on parallel processors, it maintains the ability to deliver high performance. A unique feature of this protocol is that its behavior, defined by a set of functions, may be modified dynamically over the life of a connection without loss of reliable data transfer. This property makes the protocol extremely attractive for supporting applications, such as multimedia applications, that require different protocol support for different portions of their traffic streams. The protocol has been verified to reliably deliver data, manage connections, and contain no deadlocks or loops. A parallel architecture for implementing the protocol has also been verified. Analysis of a skeleton implementation shows that the protocol has the potential to receive data at a rate of over 150 kpackets/s if 10-MIPS processors are used in the implementation.
AB - This paper presents a transport layer protocol designed to meet the wide-ranging needs of high-speed applications. The protocol is feature-rich, yet since it is designed to be implemented on parallel processors, it maintains the ability to deliver high performance. A unique feature of this protocol is that its behavior, defined by a set of functions, may be modified dynamically over the life of a connection without loss of reliable data transfer. This property makes the protocol extremely attractive for supporting applications, such as multimedia applications, that require different protocol support for different portions of their traffic streams. The protocol has been verified to reliably deliver data, manage connections, and contain no deadlocks or loops. A parallel architecture for implementing the protocol has also been verified. Analysis of a skeleton implementation shows that the protocol has the potential to receive data at a rate of over 150 kpackets/s if 10-MIPS processors are used in the implementation.
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U2 - 10.1109/49.221199
DO - 10.1109/49.221199
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0027591668
SN - 0733-8716
VL - 11
SP - 519
EP - 530
JO - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
JF - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
IS - 4
ER -