ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
File access performance of diskless workstations
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Computer networks
Performance of the V storage server: a preliminary report
CSC '85 Proceedings of the 1985 ACM thirteenth annual conference on Computer Science
Implementing remote procedure calls
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Measured performance of an Ethernet local network
Communications of the ACM
Interfacing to the 10Mbps ethernetTM: Observations and conclusions
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Systems aspects of The Cambridge Ring
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The distributed V kernel and its performance for diskless workstations
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The SUN workstation architecture
The SUN workstation architecture
A Trace-Driven Analysis of the UNIX 4.2BSD File System
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Gaining efficiency in transport services by appropriate design and implementation choices
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
A reliable datagram protocol on local area networks
SIGCOMM '86 Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM conference on Communications architectures & protocols
Experimental analysis of layered Ethernet software
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Optimizing bulk data transfer performance: a packet train model
SIGCOMM '88 Symposium proceedings on Communications architectures and protocols
Preserving and using context information in interprocess communication
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
A hierarchical solution for application level store-and-forward deadlock prevention
SIGCOMM '89 Symposium proceedings on Communications architectures & protocols
Optimistic implementation of bulk data transfer protocols
SIGMETRICS '89 Proceedings of the 1989 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Evaluation of retransmission strategies in a local area network environment
SIGMETRICS '89 Proceedings of the 1989 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Simultaneous analysis of flow and error control strategies with congestion-dependent errors
SIGMETRICS '90 Proceedings of the 1990 ACM SIGMETRICS conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
A dynamic network architecture
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
FLIP: an internetwork protocol for supporting distributed systems
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Alternative software architectures for parallel protocol execution with synchronous IPC
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
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In this paper we analyze protocols for transmitting large amounts of data over a local area network. The data transfers analyzed in this paper are different from most other forms of large-scale data transfer protocols for three reasons: (1) The definition of the protocol requires the recipient to have sufficient buffers available to receive the data before the transfer takes place; (2) We assume that the source and the destination machine are more or less matched in speed; (3) The protocol is implemented at the network interrupt level and therefore not slowed down by process scheduling delays.We consider three classes of protocols: stop-and-wait, sliding window and blast protocols. We show that the expected time of blast and sliding window protocols is significantly lower than the expected time for the stop-and-wait protocol, with blast outperforming sliding window by some small amount. Although the network error rate is sufficiently low for blast with full retransmission on error to be acceptable, the frequency of errors in the network interfaces makes it desirable to use a more sophisticated retransmission protocol. A go-back-n strategy is shown to be only marginally inferior to selective retransmission and is, given its simplicity, the retransmission strategy of choice.Our results are based on measurements collected on SUN workstations connected to a 10 megabit Ethernet network using 3-Com interfaces. The derivation of the elapsed time in terms of the network packet error rate is based on the assumption of statistically independent errors.