A Transmission Availability Forecast Service for Internet Protocol Networks

Abstract

The quality of available network connections, especially the bandwidth available to clients using the connections, has a large impact on the performance of distributed applications. For example, document transfer applications such as the World Wide Web suffer a dramatic increase in response times as a result of network congestion causing a reduction in the available bandwidth of the connection. This paper recognizes the explosion of interest in the use of Internet Protocol (IP) networks within the Australian Defense Organization and describes the development of a software tool for estimating the available bandwidth between a server and client in a distributed computing environment. We discuss the design and implementation details of the Transmission Availability Forecaster (TAF) probe and present validation studies demonstrating its reliability and accuracy in the context of actual Internet conditions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1998
Accession Number
ADA363086

Entities

People

  • R. Jana
  • W.D. Blair

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Protocols
  • Communications Protocols
  • Computer Communications
  • Computer Networks
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Design Criteria
  • Digital Communications
  • Electronic Mail
  • Electronic Messaging
  • Internet
  • Network Computing
  • Network Protocols
  • Statistics
  • Transport Protocols
  • Web Browsers

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

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  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Economics
  • Microwave Engineering.