Dynamics of TCP traffic over ATM networks
SIGCOMM '94 Proceedings of the conference on Communications architectures, protocols and applications
A Video Conferencing Testbed on ATM: Design, Implementation and Optimizations
ICMCS '95 Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems
Latency analysis of TCP on an ATM network
WTEC'94 Proceedings of the USENIX Winter 1994 Technical Conference on USENIX Winter 1994 Technical Conference
An Algorithm for Traffic Enforcement in Multi-Tasks Operating Systems
ISCC '97 Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC '97)
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At the data-link layer, ATM offers a number of features, such as high-bandwidth and per-connection quality of service (QoS) guarantees, making it particularly attractive to multimedia applications. Unfortunately, many of these features are not visible to applications because of the inadequacies of existing higher-level protocol architectures. Although a considerable effort is underway to tune these protocols for ATM networks, we believe that a new ATM specific protocol stack is essential to effectively exploit all the benefits of ATM. In this paper we describe the semantics of such a protocol stack, and discuss its advantages over traditional protocol architectures from the perspective of distributed multimedia applications. The performance impact of the new protocol architecture is experimentally demonstrated on a video conferencing testbed built around IBM RS/6000s equipped with prototype hardware for video/audio processing, and connected via ATM links.