Gaining efficiency in transport services by appropriate design and implementation choices
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Reference models, window systems, and concurrency
ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics
Multi-process structuring of user interface software
ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics
Communications of the ACM
An Analytic/Empirical Study of Distributed Sorting on a Local Area Network
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
The experimental literature of the internet: an annotated bibliography
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Primitives for Distributed Computing in a Heterogeneous Local Area Network Environment
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
The X-Kernel: An Architecture for Implementing Network Protocols
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Practical trade-offs for open interconnection
CSC '92 Proceedings of the 1992 ACM annual conference on Communications
An experiment in integrated multimedia conferencing
CSCW '86 Proceedings of the 1986 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work
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A major reason for the rarity of distributed applications, despite the proliferation of networks, is the sensitivity of their performance to various aspects of the network environment. We demonstrate that distributed applications can run faster than local ones, using common hardware. We also show that the primary factors affecting performance are, in approximate order of importance: speed of the user's workstation, speed of the remote host (if any), and the high-level (above the transport level) protocols used. In particular, the use of batching, pipelining, and structure in high-level protocols reduces the degradation often experienced between different bandwidth networks. Less significant, but still noticeable improvements result from proper design and implementation of the underlying transport protocols. Ultimately, with proper application of these techniques, network bandwidth is rendered virtually insignificant.