A systematic method for the selection of a transport level protocol

Author

Hiles, William S. ; Marlow, David ; McDearman, Jon

Author_Institution

Tennessee Technol. Univ., Cookeville, TN, USA

fYear

1989

fDate

9-12 Apr 1989

Firstpage

709

Abstract

The authors present the results of a comparison between three transport layer protocols made for the US Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) in Dahlgren, Virginia. The three protocols considered are ISO/OSI 8073 (TP-4), Versatile Message Transaction Protocol (VMTP), and Express Transfer Protocol (XTP). A discussion of the services provided by each protocol and theoretical evaluation of the efficiency of the protocols are presented. It is concluded that VMTP is the most efficient in terms of network traffic. XTP is the most general of the three and provides the most services. TP-4 appears to be the least efficient and the most limited of the three transport protocols

Keywords

open systems; protocols; standards; Dahlgren; Express Transfer Protocol; ISO/OSI 8073; TP-4; US Naval Surface Warfare Center; VMTP; Versatile Message Transaction Protocol; Virginia; XTP; network traffic; transport level protocol; Application software; Communication systems; Delay; ISO; Integrated circuit interconnections; LAN interconnection; Open systems; Optical fiber LAN; Optical fibers; Transport protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Southeastcon '89. Proceedings. Energy and Information Technologies in the Southeast., IEEE

Conference_Location

Columbia, SC

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SECON.1989.132492

Filename

132492