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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.

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

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

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

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Clark, D., Lambert, M., and L. Zhang, "NETBLT: A Bulk Data Transfer Protocol", RFC 998, MIT, March 1987. Security Considerations Security issues are not discussed in this memo.

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

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

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

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D.D. Clark and M. Lambert and L. Zhang, "NETBLT: A Bulk Data Transfer Protocol", Technical Report RFC 969, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, 1985.

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