• DocumentCode
    2278831
  • Title

    XTP versus TCP/IP in a UNIX/Streams environment

  • Author

    Roca, Vincent ; Diot, Christophe

  • Author_Institution
    BULL S.A., Echirolles, France
  • fYear
    1993
  • fDate
    22-24 Sep 1993
  • Firstpage
    76
  • Lastpage
    82
  • Abstract
    Discusses whether XTP is a good replacement for TCP. The two are compared based on standard data transfers between UNIX systems using a Streams environment. The authors first modified the KRM implementation of XTP to port it to the Streams. Performance comparisons with TCP showed no significant differences. They modified XTP´s acknowledgement strategy to reduce the number of control packets meant to acknowledge received data. It yielded an average 15% speedup. Beyond the protocol comparison, the authors also intend to analyze Streams environment support for communication system implementation
  • Keywords
    Unix; protocols; KRM implementation; Streams environment; TCP/IP; UNIX/Streams environment; XTP; communication system implementation; protocol comparison; standard data transfers; Communication system control; Context; Educational institutions; Electronic components; Internet; Multiprocessing systems; Streaming media; TCPIP; Throughput; Transport protocols;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Distributed Computing Systems, 1993., Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Future Trends of
  • Conference_Location
    Lisbon
  • Print_ISBN
    0-8186-4430-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/FTDCS.1993.344173
  • Filename
    344173