Multiplexing issues in communication system design
SIGCOMM '90 Proceedings of the ACM symposium on Communications architectures & protocols
Comparison of rate-based service disciplines
SIGCOMM '91 Proceedings of the conference on Communications architecture & protocols
Xunet 2: a nationwide testbed in high-speed networking
IEEE INFOCOM '92 Proceedings of the eleventh annual joint conference of the IEEE computer and communications societies on One world through communications (Vol. 2)
A continuous media transport and orchestration service
SIGCOMM '92 Conference proceedings on Communications architectures & protocols
A Scheduling Discipline and Admission Control Policy for Xunet 2
NOSSDAV '93 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video
A Multimedia Enhanced Transport Service in a Quality of Service Architecture
NOSSDAV '93 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video
Operating System Support for a Video-On-Demand File Service
NOSSDAV '93 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video
Framework for Implementing the Next Generation of Communication Protocols
NOSSDAV '93 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Design, implementation, and performance of a native mode ATM transport layer
INFOCOM'96 Proceedings of the Fifteenth annual joint conference of the IEEE computer and communications societies conference on The conference on computer communications - Volume 1
A transport protocol for native mode ATM networks design and implementation
Computer Communications
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Applications communicating over connectionless networks, such as IP, cannot obtain per-connection Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees. In contrast, the connection-oriented nature of the ATM layer and its per-virtual-circuit QoS guarantees are visible to a native-mode ATM application. We describe the design and implementation of operating system and signaling support for native-mode applications, independent of the semantics of the protocol layers or of the signaling protocol. The work was done in the context of a Unix-like operating system and the Xunet 2 wide-area high-speed ATM network. The IPC-based interface between an application and the signaling entity allows processes to request parameterized virtual circuits, and the signaling-kernel interface allows resources to be reclaimed from prematurely terminating processes. We also built a simple encapsulation layer over raw IP that allows any host with IP access to send AAL frames into the wide-area network with little performance degradation. Our design makes it simple to port existing TCP/IP socket applications to a native-mode ATM protocol stack and also enables interoperation of existing IP networks with our ATM network. Our experience has been positive - the design is robust, easily extendible and scales well with the number of open connections.