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....implementation. However, TCP may not be suitable for communication on hot spotted network because it was designed for wired links and it uses slow start. As main applications are data downloading services, a protocol for bulk data transfer in high speed wireless links is necessary. Though NETBLT [13] is a protocol for bulk data transfer in wired network, the protocol for hot spotted network must deal with a mobile s sudden disconnection by going out of the range. VII. ....

D. D. Clark, M. L. Lambert, and L. Zhang, "NETBLT: A Bulk Data Transfer Protocol", IETF RFC 998, 1987.

....size or incrqasiug link bandwidth. Section 3 rioscribes the requirements for an ide[ congestion avoidance scheme. Section 4 ists a number of alternativ schemes for congestion avoidante. From this list, we selected a few hemea for detailed study. The criterion for selection are described. S(tion 5 d fines a number of performauce metrics tlat were used to dqfine optimMity. Section 6 lists the gosh that we set for the design of tM schemes. Most of these goals are quantitative and verifiable. Sectio 7 describes the components of a generic congestion avoidance schem ia the framework of a ....

....at th destination leading to packet losses, retransmissions, and degraded performance. A flow control cheme protects the destination from being flooded by the source. Some of the schemes that have been described i the literature are win dow flow control, Xon Xoff [71, rate flow control [5l, etc. In the window flow control scheme, the destination specifies a limit on the number of CH2547 8 88 0000 0134501.00 1988 IEEE 134 Proceedings Computer Ntworking Symposium, Washington, D.C. April 11 13, 1988, pp. 134 143. packets that the source may send without further permission from the ....

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David Clark, "NETBLT: A Bulk Data Transfer Protocol," Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lab for Computer Science, RFC-275, Februby 1985.

.... to support high speed requirements, known as lightweight protocols [10, 12, 13] Some of these protocols and their main contributions are: Datakit [6] introduced the concept of sender driven transmissions; Delta t [21] introduced the concept of implicit connection management; NETBLT [7]: introduced the rate control mechanism; VMTP [5] transaction oriented protocol; XTP [17] light weight protocol designed for hardware implementation; adopts the bucket al..gorithm for error control in multicast connections. This protocol combines the main features from the above protocols; ....

D.D. Clark, M.L. Lambert and L. Zhang, "NETBLT: A Bulk Data Transfer Protocol", Network Information Center RFC 998, SRI International, March 1987.

....to improving TCP throughput are based on standard ideas that do not impact assumptions about fairness when competing with other traffic in the network [20, 43] Application based approaches are often more aggressive about acquiring network capacity. Examples include most non TCP based transports [14, 32, 36] and all parallel TCP approaches [19, 25, 44, 49] This paper describes a daemon based mechanism to implement both standard and non standard TCP adjustments for individual flows using network metrics across designated paths. No modifications to the application are required, and the user does not ....

D. Clark, M. Lambert, and L. Zhang. NETBLT: A Bulk Data Transfer Protocol. RFC 998, March 1987.

....Researchers attempting to transfer medical images over high speed networks, such as FDDI and Ultranet, found they were able to utilize only 20 of the available bandwidth [1] The delay was due to protocol processing. Meanwhile, many new protocols are designed for efficient data transfer [2] [6]. Current protocol improvements capitalize on the fact that not all applications have identical needs. This was one of the main reasons that vendors developed specialized protocols to deliver the best performance per application requirements. In the medical community different applications exist ....

D. Clark, M.L. Lambert, and L. Zhang, "NETBLT: A bulk data transfer protocol," Network Working Group Request for Comments, RFC 998, Mar. 1987.

....i (k 1) i (k) ff; a i (k) 0 (6) i (k 1) minf i (k) fi i (k)g; a i (k) 0 (7) Equations (6) and (7) represent the core policy of the proposed closed loop building block. The parameters ff; fi are constants (ff 0; fi 1)affecting rate increase and decrease respectively. NETBLT [11] shares the property of measuring output rates i (k) but it detects congestion based on the ratedifferences i (k) Gamma i (k) instead of the accumulation, a i (k) P k ( i (k) Gamma i (k) T . Our policy is peripherally similar to AIMD[19, 32] but uses the output rate i (k) for ....

Clark D., et al, "NETBLT: a bulk data transfer protocol," SIGCOMM, '87 pp.353-359.

....retransmissions due e.g. to a packet blocked on the local network interface, a lost ACK or a bad RTT estimate. The main problem comes from the fact that timers are local means to estimate external events. Some researchers proposed to avoid the use of transport level timers for transmission control [Cla87a]. 2.1.3 Congestion control Transport level congestion control ensures that network resources are shared eOEciently and network congestion is avoided. In fact, window based AEow control algorithms tend to use large window values in order to ill the pipej in the case of networks with high ....

....of this algorithm within the TCP version resulted in enhanced performance for the protocol. 2. 2 Special purpose protocols Some of the early work in the domain of enhanced transport service proposed the design of light weight special purpose protocols for specic application needs (e.g. NETBLT [Cla87a, Cla87b] for bulk data transfer and VMTP [Cher86] for transactional applications) NETBLT or NETwork Block Transfer is a light weight transport protocol working on top of UDP IP optimized for bulk data transfer over High speed LANs ( Cla87a] Cla87b] Lam87] The main idea in NETBLT is to dissociate ....

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David Clark, Mark Lambert, Lixia Zhang. NETBLT: A Bulk Data Transfer Protocol. Network Information Center, RFC-998, SRI International, March, 1987.

....the corresponding communication software. Current transport solutions and their limits The emergent generation of high speed networks now correctly address high throughputs. Recently, a lot of studies have been performed around the design of light weight transport protocols, such as NETBLT [11], VMTP [12] or XTP [13] 14] These are more suited to support multimedia data transfers than TCP or TP4 protocols ; however, these proposals do not provide a sufficient solution to multimedia requirements. In particular, multimedia synchronization issues (both spatial and temporal ones) are not ....

D.D. Clark, M.L. Lambert, L. Zhang. "NETBLT : a bulk data transfer protocol". RFC 998, March 1987.

....efficiency when possible without degrading other performance parameters. One of the earliest high speed transport protocols, defined to cope with long delays on satellite links was used by the NADIR project [1] A very near example is NETBLT designed at MIT for the efficient transfer of bulk data [2], 3] 4] XTP is another lightweight protocol, cast into VLSI for the Protocol Engine project, with a design center of 100 Mbit sec [5] 6] 7] These protocols tried to minimize the effect of congestion, delays over satellite links, and packet loss by optimizing the flow control and ....

David Clark, Mark Lambert, and Lixia Zhang. NETBLT: A Bulk Data Transfer Protocol. Network Information Center RFC-998, SRI International. March, 1987.

....that end hosts can sleep for long periods of time. These end hosts wake up every now and then and retrieve any packets addressed to them from the base stations. There have also been initiatives to optimize TCP s peformance for metrics other than power. Schemes like WebTP [9] I TCP [1] and NETBLT [6] were designed to improve the performance of TCP with relation to latency, loss recovery in wireless mediums and throughput for bulk transfers respectively. Finally, there have been been projects like Odyssey [17] and Spectra [7] which attempt to provide adaptive application behaviour (conserving ....

D. D. Clark, M. L. Lambert, and L. Zhang. Netblt: A bulk data transfer protocol. In RFC 998, 1987.

....does not have [145, p. 598] A disadvantage of the aggressive approach is its potential for buffer overflow at the transport receiver (hence, wasted bandwidth) unless the credit granting mechanism is carefully timed [38] Rate control uses timers at the transport sender to limit data transmission [36, 39, 161]. Either a transport sender can be assigned (1) a burst size and interval (or burst rate) 67 or (2) an interpacket delay time. In (1) a transport sender transmits a burst of TPDUs at its maximum rate, then waits for the specified burst interval before transmitting the next burst (e.g. NETBLT ....

....to a significant change in the network or the transport receiver. They also do not affect the way data ACKs are managed [61] Some authors argue that implementing window control and rate control together as in XTP and NETBLT will achieve better performance than implementing only one of them [39, 61, 104, 136]. One innovative approach implemented in TP involves backpressure, where the application, transport, and network layers all interact. If a user receiver reads from the transport receiver at a rate slower than the transport sender is sending, the transport receiver s buffers eventually will ....

D. Clark, M. Lambert, and L. Zhang. NETBLT: a bulk data transfer protocol. RFC 998, March 1987.

....can use the error reports to Figure 8.4 An Internetwork: Stations, Routers, and Network Segments Stations Network Network Segment A Network Segment B Network Segment C Segment Routers 105 adjust the number of packets flowing from the sending endpoint. TCP takes this approach. NETBLT [CLAR87] uses a technique called rate based flow control, where two parameters, burst and rate, regulate the flow of packets: a burst of packets is sent at a specified rate. VMTP [CHER88] also uses rate based flow control, but instead of burst and rate, it uses an interpacket gap. XTP applies rate control ....

Clark, D. D., Lambert, M. L. and Zhang, L., "NETBLT: A Bulk Data Transfer Protocol," Network Information Center RFC 998, SRI International, March 1987.

....into different client buffers, since each message may not entirely fill its buffer. In reservation mode, the reservation buffer size may differ greatly from the normal allocation size, and may be greater. This mode is similar to the the allocation control mechanisms in the VMTP [7] and NETBLT [8] protocols. Rate Control In some situations flow control is not sufficient to ensure efficient, error free transmission between the sender and receiver, even on an extremely reliable network. Imagine a network containing both hardware and software implementations of the XTP protocol. Since the ....

Clark, David, and Lambert, Mark, "NETBLT: A Bulk Data Transfer Protocol", Request for Comment 998 (RFC 998), 1987.

.... the IP datagram layer itself (and its partner, the ICMP protocol) It would be a poor idea to put the entire fragmentation avoidance mechanism in, say, the TCP layer, because both the mechanism and any additional protocol would have to be duplicated in parallel layers, such as UDP [18] NETBLT [6], and VMTP [3] and because it would be awkward for a TCP based mechanism to share knowledge with other layers and across connections. This is not to say that layers above IP should be uninvolved in fragmentation avoidance. Architectural layering does not mean that higher layers must be kept ....

David D. Clark, Mark L. Lambert, and Lixia Zhang. NETBLT: A Bulk Data Transfer Protocol. RFC 998, Network Information Center, SRI International, March, 1987.

....data packet. By using data packets to open connections and timers to determine when connections are closed, Delta t avoids the problem introduced by using non data packets for handshaking. The sliding window can be moved without explicit acknowledgment messages. NETBLT (NETwork BLock Transfer) [2] is a bulk data transfer protocol designed for use on the Internet. Since this protocol may encounter links with varying data capacity, it uses rate control to minimize network congestion and multiple buffering to minimize errors and to provide high throughput. This same rate control algorithm is ....

....is guaranteed within the bounds specified. The rate that must be controlled is the rate of transmission of TPDUs across the network. The transport of TPDUs is controlled by a timer based protocol [8] Rate control has been shown to be effective in reducing contention in large file transfers [2], and is well suited to the constant data flow that is characteristic of continuous media. Because the transfer rate is nearly constant, and the senders and receivers have guaranteed that they can provide the resources to handle the rate specified, and because the protocol assumes that the ....

D. D. Clark, M. L. Lambert, and L. Zhang, "NETBLT: A bulk data transfer protocol," RFC 1112, Network Working Group, 1987.

.... Over the past twenty years, a number of transport protocols have been designed for different networking environments a survey of many of these protocols can be found in [31] Perhaps the two most notable satellite oriented transport protocols that have been developed are the NETBLT protocol [30], developed by Clark, Lambert, and Zhang in the 1980s, and the Xpress Transport Protocol (XTP) version 4.0 [145] XTP is a very flexible transport protocol designed for applications ranging from real time embedded systems to multimedia distributions to applications distributed over a wide area ....

D. Clark, M. Lambert, and L. Zhang. NETBLT: A Bulk Data Transfer Protocol. Internet RFC 998, 1987.

....studies of PRS. 21 2.3. Making Retransmission Work In order to minimize the retransmission bandwidth and latency we adopt selective repeat rather than go back N retransmission. The appropriateness of selective repeat for high speed networks has been already demonstrated widely in literature [11,13,23]. To maximize the probability of recovery, we have added the following features: 2.3.1. Playout buffering The time available for recovery may be increased with no perceptible (to the user) deterioration of quality, by introducing limited buffering at the receiver. This is called playout ....

....IP Ethernet User Unix Network CM Protocol TCP UDP ATM Kernel 27 2.4.3. Processing Overhead In the common case, i.e. when there are no losses) the protocol processing is on par with UDP. When there is loss, the protocol processing is comparable to that of other selective repeat protocols [11,13,23]. However, in addition to the processing usually associated with selective repeat protocols, our scheme incurs the following overhead: Conditional retransmission decision: the receiver requires information about the period of the CM stream and an estimate of the RTT to make retransmission ....

Clark, D., Lambert, M., Zhang, L., "NETBLT: A Bulk Data Transfer Protocol," RFC 998, MIT, 1987.

....that such information is valuable to the application in deciding how to handle incomplete data, e.g. in applying concealment. 3. 3 Complexity The error control mechanism is a variation of selective repeat and therefore its complexity similar to the complexity of other selective repeat mechanisms [6, 7, 19]. The appropriateness of this type of error control for high speed networks has been already demonstrated. Our mechanism includes some additional complexity, which we discuss next: 3.3.1 Retransmission decision: The information required for the retransmission decision at the receiver are ....

Clark, D., Lambert, M., Zhang, L., "NETBLT: A Bulk Data Transfer Protocol," RFC 998, MIT, 1987.

....to be studied such as addressing and group management. We focus in this paper on the design issues of a multicast transport protocol able to perform efficiently on top of networks with various characteristics. This study is based on the XTP3.6 multicast approach [PEI92] and some other protocols [Cla87, Che88, Min89, Wat89]. See [Doe90] for a survey of lightweight transport protocols. In a modern transport protocol there are at least six procedures: connection management, data transfer, state time synchronization, flow control, rate control, and error control. Incorporating such procedures in a multicast transport ....

Clark D. , Lambert M., Zhang L., "NETBLT: A Bulk Data Transfer Protocol", Request For Comments, RFC 998, March 1987.

.... as datagrams, it is necessary to forgo connection oriented protocols and instead implement the system using connectionless protocols such as UDP [8] We have designed and implemented such a system, called the Adaptive File Distribution Protocol (AFDP) AFDP shares some ideas of CFDP [6] NETBLT [3] and Armstrong s multicast transport protocol [1] but generalizes them to provide a scalable, flow controlled data distribution mechanism that capitalizes on available communication modes. II. II. THE AFDP PROTOCOL AFDP is intended for distributing large quantities of data to a group of ....

Clark, David D., Lambert, Mark L., and Zhang, Lixia. NETBLT: A Bulk Data Transfer Protocol. RFC 998. March, 1987.

....complete picture of which segments are queued at the receiver and which have not yet arrived. Some evidence in favor of selective acknowledgments has been published [NBS85] and selective acknowledgments have been included in a number of experimental Internet protocols VMTP [Cheriton88] NETBLT [Clark87], and RDP [Velten84] and proposed for OSI TP4 [NBS85] However, in the non LFN regime, selective acknowledgments reduce the number of Jacobson, Braden, Borman [Page 3] RFC 1323 TCP Extensions for High Performance May 1992 packets retransmitted but do not otherwise improve performance, making ....

Clark, D., Lambert, M., and L. Zhang, "NETBLT: A Bulk Data Transfer Protocol", RFC 998, MIT, March 1987.

....behavior in the face of multiple dropped segments. With selective acknowledgments, the data receiver can inform the sender about all segments that have arrived successfully, so the sender need retransmit only the segments that have actually been lost. Several transport protocols, including NETBLT [Clark87] XTP [Strayer92] RDP [Velten84] NADIR [Huitema81] and VMTP [Cheriton88] have used selective acknowledgment. There is some empirical evidence in favor of selective acknowledgments simple experiments with RDP have shown that disabling the selective acknowledgment facility greatly increases ....

Clark, D., Lambert, M., and L. Zhang, "NETBLT: A Bulk Data Transfer Protocol", RFC 998, MIT, March 1987.

....the corresponding communication software. Current transport solutions and their limits The emergent generation of high speed networks now correctly address high throughputs. Recently, a lot of studies have been performed around the design of leigh weight transport protocols, such as NETBLT [11], VMTP [12] or XTP [13] 14] more suited to support multimedia data transfers than TCP or TP4 protocols ; however, these proposals do not provide a sufficient solution to multimedia requirements. Especially, multimedia synchronization issues (both spatial and temporal ones) are not addressed and ....

D.D. Clark, M.L. Lambert, L. Zhang. "NETBLT : a bulk data transfer protocol". RFC 998, March 1987.

....has to be abruptly processed by the receiving end upon receipt and whose size is not restricted. 1.3. 6 Network Block Transfer Protocol Network Block Transfer Protocol (NETBLT) is a recent transport protocol developed in the late eighties for high throughput, bulk data transmission applications [98] [101] over high bandwidth, long delay transmission paths such as satellite links. Like TCP, at the network layer it uses the Internet Protocol (IP) 77] which performs a potentially unreliable datagram service. For reliable data transport service, it provides end to end error recovery and rate ....

. D. Clark, M. L. Lambert, and L. Zhang. NETBLT: A Bulk Data Transfer Protocol. Internet Request for Comments, RFC 969, Network Information Center, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, December, 1985.

....to use in protecting the network against the sources. An excellent survey by Gerla and Kleinrock of this early work can be found in [86] The increased performance and wider applications of computer systems motivated researchers to generate new transport protocols in the eighties, such as NETBLT [87], VMTP [88] and XTP [89] These protocols were designed to match the rates of sources and sinks, and so used rate control schemes. But both the proliferation of networked computers and the increased performance led to congestion within networks, and the pioneering work of Ramakrishnan and Jain ....

DD Clark, "NETBLT: A Bulk Data Transfer Protocol," Network Information Centre, SRI International, RFC 969, December 1985.

....acknowledgments when small amounts of data are being sent and quick response is the main concern. Since MT does not send its status periodically and it does not have a timer, a timer is needed at BR to detect loss of packets. The concept of using a timer at the receiver was introduced in NETBLT [CLZ87], although in the context of a transport protocol. Also note that BR sends its status periodically to MT, thereby incorporating redundancy in the error prone medium. 3. MT retransmits the requested packets before transmitting any new packet. If retransmissions do not reach BR, MT will not be able ....

D. D. Clark, M. L. Lambert, and L. Zhang, "NETBLT: A bulk data transfer protocol," Proceedings ACM SIGCOMM '87 Symposium, pp. 353--359, Stowe, Vermont, August 1987.

....presents our conclusions. 3. MAKING RETRANSMISSION WORK In order to minimize the retransmission bandwidth and latency we adopt selective repeat rather than go back N retransmission. The appropriateness of selective repeat for high speed networks has been already demonstrated widely in literature [5,7,16]. To maximize the probability of recovery, we have added the following features: 3.1 Playout buffering The time available for recovery may be increased with no perceptible deterioration in quality to the user, by introducing limited buffering at the receiver. This is called playout buffering and ....

....issues read requests for frames with the same period T as the sender. 4.1 Processing Overhead In the common case, i.e. when there are no losses) the protocol processing is on par with UDP. When there is loss, the protocol processing is comparable to that of other selective repeat protocols [5,7,16]. However, in addition to the processing usually associated with selective repeat protocols, our scheme incurs the following overhead: Conditional retransmission decision: the receiver requires information about the period of the CM stream and an estimate of the RTD to make retransmission ....

Clark, D., Lambert, M., Zhang, L., "NETBLT: A Bulk Data Transfer Protocol," RFC 998, MIT, 1987.

....Protocol (XTP) version 4. 0 [49] Timer driven acknowledgment mechanisms similar to those in SSCOP date back to 1984 [50] The error performance of SSCOP was studied in [51] In the 1980 s, a protocol known as NETBLT (NETwork BLock Transfer) was designed for data transfer over satellite IP links [52]. Two main differences exist between STP and NETBLT. First, data transfer in NETBLT is semantically arranged in large fixed block sizes called buffers. Applications are aware of these data boundaries and pass contiguous buffers to the transfer protocol. This is in contrast to the stream data ....

D. Clark, M. Lambert, and L. Zhang, "NETBLT: A Bulk Data Transfer Protocol," Internet RFC 998, 1987.

....implementations. This inflexibility perpetuates protocol performance and functionality limitations by making it difficult to replace inefficient mechanisms with more suitable alternatives (such as improved implementation techniques [13] connection management schemes [14] flow control algorithms [15], and error detection and recovery mechanisms [11, 16] Therefore, many applications remain in the procrustean framework imposed by conventional protocols due to the effort and expertise required to modify these protocols without introducing subtle errors or inefficiencies [17] The ADAPTIVE ....

D. D. Clark, M. L. Lambert, and L. Zhang, "NETBLT: A Bulk Data Transfer Protocol," Network Information Center RFC 998, pp. 1--21, Mar. 1987.

....executed for each packet and (2) improving the implementation of standard transport system support services such as message management and demultiplexing [10, 11, 33] 5. Design new lightweight and adaptive protocols that are tailored for high speed, low error, and low delay network environments [19, 20, 34, 35, 36]. 6. Develop alternative transport system architectures based on (a) vertical process architectures [7, 37] b) parallel processing of protocol functions [3, 4, 19] c) flexible protocol stacks that require fewer layers and or are dynamically assembled [6, 25, 26, 30] and (d) modular and ....

D. D. Clark, M. L. Lambert, and L. Zhang, "NETBLT: A Bulk Data Transfer Protocol," Network Information Center RFC 998, pp. 1--21, Mar. 1987.

.... simulations, we choose to model the JK algorithm by adding many of the congestion control ideas found in that code, such as adjustable windows, better timeout calculations, and fast retransmit, to our generic flow control algorithm [6, 10] Similar rate based flow control protocols such as NETBLT [2] and the delay based congestion avoidance scheme [7] allows users to increase and decrease their sending rates in response to changes monitored in the acknowledgment stream (instead of packet losses) The idea is that a slowed down acknowledgement rate implicitly signals congestion, and triggers a ....

D. D. Clark, M. L. Lambert and L. Zhang, NETBLT: A Bulk Data Transfer Protocol, RFC-998, Network Working Group, March 1987.

.... Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory One Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720 kfall ee.lbl.gov, floyd ee.lbl.gov DRAFT December 2, 1995 1 Introduction The capability to provide selective acknowledgement (SACK) of received data has been used in a number of transport protocols including NETBLT [CLZ87], XTP [SDW92] RDP [VHS84] and VMTP [Che88] Although there have been proposals for adding SACK to TCP [BJ88, BJZ90] SACK was later removed from the TCP RFCs (Request For Comments) BBJ92] pending further research. In this report, we illustrate some of the benefits of adding SACK to Reno ....

D. Clark, M. Lambert, and L. Zhang. "NETBLT: A bulk data transfer protocol,". (RFC 998 Network Information Center), Mar 1987.

.... [R#t92] Lap92] Bj#93] A detailed survey of protocol implementation optimization techniques can be found in [Dab91] and [Fel93] Early work in the domain of enhanced transport service proposed the design of light weight special purpose protocols for speci c application needs (e.g. NETBLT [Cla87a, Cla87b] for bulk data transfer and VMTP [Cher86] for transactional applications) This approach has a major limitation: the diversity of the applications increases the complexity of the transport by the support of several protocols. Each application would then choose a protocol corresponding to its ....

David Clark, Mark Lambert, Lixia Zhang. NETBLT: A Bulk Data Transfer Protocol. Network Information Center, RFC-998, SRI International, March, 1987.

....based networks, the Virtual Circuit ID itself can be used as the conversation ID. Note that for the IP Internet, one cannot always use the source and destination port numbers, since some protocols do not define them. For example, if an IP packet is generated by a transport protocol such as NetBlt [8], this information may not be available. An engineering decision could be to recognize port numbers for some common protocols and use the IP (source address, destination address) pair for all other protocols. This may result in some unfairness since transport connections sharing the same address ....

Clark, D. D., Lambert, M. L. and Zhang, L., NETBLT: A Bulk Data Transfer Protocol, RFC-998, Network Working Group, March 1987.

....timeouts has a penalty. Case III: Rate based flow control with selective retransmission The two earlier cases considered a traditional sliding window flow control scheme. Recently there has been interest in rate based flow control schemes. We present one such scheme that is based on NETBLT [ClLa87]. We call it Netblt to acknowledge our inspiration, while denoting that our analysis is for a slightly different subset of NETBLT. In this scheme, a source transmits packets at regular intervals s 0 , where the time s 0 is estimated by measuring the time between arriving acks and therefore ....

....Jain has proposed that the round trip delay, r t , be measured regularly and used to probe the state of the virtual circuit [Jain89] The JK scheme [Jaco88] uses packet loss as an indication of congestion. NETBLT, a rate based scheme, measures packet inter arrival times to adapt to state changes [ClLa87]. We will describe and analyze four such adaptive schemes. These are (1) The delay based scheme mentioned above [Jain89] 2) The dynamic window adjustment scheme proposed by Jacobson and Karels [Jaco88] 3) The variant of NETBLT, Netblt, described earlier, with some additions [ClLa87] 4) A new ....

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D. D. Clark, M. L. Lambert and L. Zhang, "NETBLT: A Bulk Data Transfer Protocol" NIC RFC998, March 1987.

....and Weiss [15] and Mukherjee and Strikwerda [45] These analyses give some insight into the performance of generic dynamic window schemes. 12.2. Rate based Flow Control Several rate based flow control schemes have been proposed in the literature. One of the earliest scheme was for NETBLT [11], which was based on heuristics, and not thoroughly studied. In NETBLT, the transmitter sends data at some rate for a few round trip times, and the receiver clocks the data to see if it was received at that rate. If it did, the sender increases its rate, else it cuts back, This suffers from the ....

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