SATP-a transport protocol for ATM-intranets

This paper proposes a new transport protocol, namely SATP (simple ATM transport protocol), designed for ATM based intranets. It is adapted to the specific characteristics of ATM and can be used transparently from any application as an alternative to TCP which is known to be not very suitable for ATM. Transparent means that the use of SATP does not require any modification and recompilation of applications, which can benefit from the better performance of SATP in the case of ATM-based intranets. Beside the implementation and integration of the protocol, some performance results are presented