Transputer reference manual
Architectural considerations for a new generation of protocols
SIGCOMM '90 Proceedings of the ACM symposium on Communications architectures & protocols
The Helios parallel operating system (revised ed.)
The Helios parallel operating system (revised ed.)
Esprit Project OSI 95: new transport services for high-speed networking
JENC Conference procedings on 3rd joint European networking conference
Case study: Partial ASN.1/BER decoding scheme in a multiprocessor environment
Computer Communications
| Hi-index | 0.00 |
With the advent of high-speed networking technologies such as fiber optics, a traditional bottleneck in communication has disappeared. Now, the speed at which a processor can execute a communication protocol is the most significant limiting factor in protocol performance. The question is, how can a multimedia application take best advantage of these high-speed networks? We adopt an optimized implementation approach that allows efficient use of the bandwidth available on today's high-speed networks. In this paper, we propose a new horizontal processing architecture that processes data as soon as it arrives from the network. This model increases the processing speed of the OSI model by using a multiple-instruction, single-data (MISD) scheme. However, the OSI protocol stack often imposes ordering constraints that prevent concurrent processing of the protocol layers. By using a fixed packet format, all layers from the network layer through to the presentation layer are processed in parallel. A prototype shows that the proposed model has a performance improvement of up to 60% more than the conventional approach.