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Document Type thesis

Author Name Holl, David J.

URN etd-0501103-111419

Title A Performance Analysis of TCP and STP Implementations and Proposals for New QoS Classes for TCP/IP

Degree MS

Department Electrical & Computer Engineering

Advisors
Professor David Cyganski, Advisor
Professor Brian King, Committee Member
Professor William Michalson, Committee Member

Keywords
TCP
RED
satellite
PEP
STP
performance enhancing proxy
segment caching
IP-ABR
Internet
bandwidth reservation
IP-VBR
congestion avoidance
bandwidth sharing

Date of Presentation/Defense 2003-04-10

Availability unrestricted

Abstract
With a new United States Army initiative to exploit commercially developed information technology, there is a heightened interest in using Internet protocols over the military's geosynchronous satellite links. TCP is the dominant Internet protocol used for reliable data exchange, but its own design limits performance when used over long delay network links such as satellites. Initially this research set out to compare TCP with another proposed protocol, the Satellite Transport Protocol (STP). However through a series of tests, we found that STP does not fulfill its claims of increased throughput over TCP and uncovered a flaw in STP's founding research. In addition, this thesis proposes and demonstrates novel performance enhancing techniques that significantly improve transport protocol throughput.

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Document Type	thesis
Author Name	Holl, David J.
URN	etd-0501103-111419
Title	A Performance Analysis of TCP and STP Implementations and Proposals for New QoS Classes for TCP/IP
Degree	MS
Department	Electrical & Computer Engineering
Advisors	Professor David Cyganski, Advisor Professor Brian King, Committee Member Professor William Michalson, Committee Member
Keywords	TCP RED satellite PEP STP performance enhancing proxy segment caching IP-ABR Internet bandwidth reservation IP-VBR congestion avoidance bandwidth sharing
Date of Presentation/Defense	2003-04-10
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract With a new United States Army initiative to exploit commercially developed information technology, there is a heightened interest in using Internet protocols over the military's geosynchronous satellite links. TCP is the dominant Internet protocol used for reliable data exchange, but its own design limits performance when used over long delay network links such as satellites. Initially this research set out to compare TCP with another proposed protocol, the Satellite Transport Protocol (STP). However through a series of tests, we found that STP does not fulfill its claims of increased throughput over TCP and uncovered a flaw in STP's founding research. In addition, this thesis proposes and demonstrates novel performance enhancing techniques that significantly improve transport protocol throughput.
Files	dholl.pdf