ACCORD Broadband ATM Satellite Experiment (BASE) -protocols characterization

Abstract

A Broadband ATM satellite Experiment (BASE) was carried out between the Communicadons Research Centre, Canada and Rome Laboratory, USA during the period of May 95 to March 96. The objectives of the experiment was to perform a series of tests to characterize ATM over broadband satellite bearers. This document reports on the second phase of the experiment that was conducted from December 95 to March 96 over the NASA Advanced Communication Technology Satellite (ACTS) satellite(Ka-band). Tests consisted in throughput measurements of TCP over a broadband ATM satellite link as a function of Bit Error Rate (BER). The throughput performance of TCP/IP was very poor due mostly to the (bandwidth * delay) product being limited by the TCP window size implementation. The results are presented along with the influence of others factors such as the Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) size and packet size. Finally, a performance comparison with a special implementation of TCPfor network with large delays and high bandwidth (TCPfor Long Fat Networks - TCP-LFN) is presented. Ii%

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1997
Accession Number
ADA345492

Entities

People

  • Corey Pike
  • Isabelle Labbe
  • John Butterworth
  • Louis Gravel
  • Sean Lanigan

Organizations

  • Communications Research Centre Canada

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Application Software
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Bandwidth
  • Computer Networks
  • Internet
  • Ka Band
  • Measurement
  • Network Protocols
  • Networks
  • Operating Systems
  • Packet Loss
  • Retransmission
  • Standards
  • Transport Protocols
  • Transport Ships

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Networking
  • European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP).
  • Space Exploration and Orbital Mechanics.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Satellites