VMTP as the transport layer for high-performance distributed systems

  • Authors:

  • D. R. Cheriton;C. L. Williamson

  • Affiliations:

  • Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Electr. Eng., Stanford Univ., CA;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Communications Magazine
  • Year:
  • 1989

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Abstract

The authors identify and discuss three major categories of deficiencies in current transport protocols: performance, naming, and functionality. They describe the design of the Versatile Message Transaction Protocol (VMTP) and some performance measurements of the protocol used in the V-Distributed System. They show that VMTP addresses all of the above issues within a single protocol without significant compromise