Title :
XTP versus TCP/IP in a UNIX/Streams environment
Author :
Roca, Vincent ; Diot, Christophe
Author_Institution :
BULL S.A., Echirolles, France
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;
Conference_Titel :
Distributed Computing Systems, 1993., Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Future Trends of
Conference_Location :
Lisbon
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-4430-3
DOI :
10.1109/FTDCS.1993.344173
