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.

Creator

• Holl, David J.

Contributors

• Cyganski, David
• King, Brian
• Michalson, William R.

Degree

• MS

Unit

• Electrical & Computer Engineering

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Language

• English

Identifier

• etd-0501103-111419

Keyword

• Performance Enhancing Proxy
• segment caching
• RED
• PEP
• bandwidth sharing
• IP-ABR
• congestion avoidance
• IP-VBR
• Internet
• bandwidth reservation
• STP
• TCP
• Satellite

Advisor

• Cyganski, David

Committee

• Michalson, William R.
• King, Brian

Defense date

• 2003-04-10

Year

• 2003

Date created

• 2003-05-01

Resource type

• Thesis

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2023-10-06