Defining high-speed protocols: five challenges and an example that survives the challenges

Author

Touch, Joseph D.

Author_Institution

Inf. Sci. Inst., Univ. of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA, USA

Volume

13

Issue

5

fYear

1995

fDate

6/1/1995 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

828

Lastpage

835

Abstract

The First IEEE Gigabit Networking (GBN) Workshop defined a set of characteristics of “Interesting” high-speed applications. The GBN criteria ensure that the application addresses a significant problem, and that it actually requires a gigabit network. This paper presents five challenges that augment the GBN criteria. These challenges ask whether gigabit applications require new research into different protocols, or can be supported by existing protocols that merely run faster. It shows a class of applications, interactive distributed multimedia, namely interactive real-time World Wide Web (WWW) access, that survive the challenges. It also shows how source presenting is a way to use excess bandwidth-delay product to reduce the browser response time, and how this is one example of a truly gigabit protocol

Keywords

computer networks; delays; distributed processing; interactive systems; multimedia communication; professional aspects; protocols; societies; First IEEE Gigabit Networking Workshop; bandwidth-delay product; browser response time; gigabit network; gigabit protocol; high-speed applications; high-speed protocols; interactive distributed multimedia; interactive real-time World Wide Web; research; Bandwidth; Broadcasting; Computational modeling; Concurrent computing; Conferences; Distributed computing; Government; Multimedia communication; Protocols; Telemedicine;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Journal on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8716

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/49.391751

Filename

391751