Xpress Transfer Protocol over the BERKOM B-ISDN network: Implementation and performance comparison with TCP/IP

Author

Fan, Changpen ; Luckenbach, Thomas ; Xu, Xiangwen

Author_Institution

German Nat. Corp. for Math. & Data Process., Berlin, Germany

fYear

1993

fDate

23-26 Mar 1993

Firstpage

296

Lastpage

302

Abstract

The Xpress Transfer Protocol (XTP) is a typical example of a protocol with new mechanisms and functionality specifically designed for new high-speed network environments and applications. XTP can provide the full range of services needed to support distributed processing systems. A software implementation of XTP has been completed to run over the BERKOM broadband ISDN. The software architecture of the implementation is presented. Performance measurements of XTP over the BERKOM network are reported and compared to those of TCP/IP protocol. XTP has been found to perform about as well as and in some situations better than TCP/IP

Keywords

B-ISDN; distributed processing; performance evaluation; protocols; Xpress Transfer Protocol; distributed processing systems; high-speed network environments; performance measurement; software implementation; Application software; B-ISDN; Bandwidth; Contracts; Data processing; Distributed processing; High-speed networks; Mathematics; Protocols; TCPIP;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers and Communications, 1993., Twelfth Annual International Phoenix Conference on

Conference_Location

Tempe, AZ

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0922-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PCCC.1993.344450

Filename

344450