DocumentCode
2066202
Title
An analysis of TCP processing overhead
Author
Clark, David D. ; Romkey, John ; Salwen, Howard
Author_Institution
MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
fYear
1988
fDate
10-12 Oct 1988
Firstpage
284
Lastpage
291
Abstract
The authors report a preliminary analysis of the processing overhead of the transport protocol TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) in which they estimate the possible performance range of the protocol. The analysis was performed by compiling a version of TCP and counting the number of the instructions in the common path. The analysis suggests that fewer than 200 instructions are required to process a TCP packet in the normal case. This number is small enough to support very high-speed transmission if it were the major overhead. The authors offer some speculations about the actual source of processing overhead in network protocols
Keywords
protocols; TCP processing overhead; Transmission Control Protocol; instructions; network protocols; transport protocol; Costs; Local area networks; Performance analysis; Production; Routing protocols; Switches; TCPIP; Testing; Throughput; Transport protocols;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Local Computer Networks, 1988., Proceedings of the 13th Conference on
Conference_Location
Minneapolis, MN
Print_ISBN
0-8186-0891-9
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/LCN.1988.10239
Filename
10239
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