Third International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP'95) TCP/IP and the European ATM pilot Tokyo, Japan November 07-November 10 ISBN: 0-8186-7216-1
Very few measurements have been done on wide area ATM networks. In this paper, we first look at how a compliant traffic can be generated with standard ATM equipment. We show that in our environment, even with a 23.42 Mbps VP out of 34 Mbps links, it is necessary to use some spacing in the ATM adapters to generate a compliant traffic. Our measurements show that with a large window TCP is able to achieve a throughput of 19 Mbps when the ATM level traffic is compliant with the traffic contract. However, if the ATM level traffic is not entirely compliant the segment loss rate increases quickly, and the TCP throughput collapses. A 3% change in the cell rate of the ATM level traffic can cause the TCP throughput to drop from 19 Mbps down to 1 Mbps
Index Terms:
transport protocols; performance evaluation; asynchronous transfer mode; wide area networks; ATM; wide area ATM networks; measurements; compliant traffic; TCP; TCP throughput; 34 Mbit/s; 23.42 Mbit/s; 1 Mbit/s; 19 Mbit/s
Citation:
O. Bonaventure, A. Danthine, E. Klovning, A. Danthine, "TCP/IP and the European ATM pilot," icnp, pp.270, Third International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP'95), 1995 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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