Title :
Evaluating LTP-T: A DTN-Friendly Transport Protocol
Author :
Farrell, Stephen ; Cahill, Vinny
Author_Institution :
Trinity Coll., Dublin
Abstract :
The Licklider transmission protocol (LTP) is a delay-tolerant point-to-point protocol being developed by the Delay-Tolerant Networking Research Group (DTNRG). LTP-Transport is an extension to LTP that provides end-to-end services and which is designed to be a generic Delay-Tolerant Network (DTN) friendly transport protocol. We describe our network emulation based test setup for these protocols and our evaluation of their performance for a few simple DTN scenarios. In particular we compare LTP-T with the other protocol being developed by the DTNRG, the bundle protocol (BP). Our results show that LTP-T can outperform the BP in some cases, though, as an overlay network protocol, the BP is more flexible in general.
Keywords :
transport protocols; DTN-friendly transport protocol; LTP-Transport; Licklider transmission protocol; delay-tolerant network; delay-tolerant point-to-point protocol; end-to-end services; network emulation; overlay network protocol; Computer science; Disruption tolerant networking; Educational institutions; Emulation; Hardware; Laboratories; Satellites; Testing; Throughput; Transport protocols; DTN; Delay tolerant networking; LTP-T; component; protocol evaluation; transport;
Conference_Titel :
Satellite and Space Communications, 2007. IWSSC '07. International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Salzburg
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-0938-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-0939-6
DOI :
10.1109/IWSSC.2007.4409412