Striping within the network subsystem

  • Authors:
  • C. B.S. Traw;J. M. Smith

  • Affiliations:
  • Archit. Labs., Intel Corp.;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
  • Year:
  • 1995

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Abstract

Striping is a general architectural technique for the, transparent aggregation of multiple, functionally similar, resources to obtain higher performance. This article establishes a precise terminology for discussing striping and striping techniques, differentiates striping from the more general architectural technique of multiplexing, and outlines the major uses and trade-offs associated with the technique within the network subsystem. It presents a set of criteria for evaluating network striping and a case study of striping within a typical high performance network stack consisting of TCP/IP over ATM/SONET. IT also includes a set of “rules of thumb” for the inclusion of striping within the network subsystem. An appendix describes the trace driven simulation used to support the case study