Congestion avoidance and control
SIGCOMM '88 Symposium proceedings on Communications architectures and protocols
SIGCOMM '94 Proceedings of the conference on Communications architectures, protocols and applications
Transport issues in the network file system
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Receiver-oriented adaptive buffer allocation in credit-based flow control for ATM networks
INFOCOM '95 Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communication Societies (Vol. 1)-Volume - Volume 1
Credit-based flow control for ATM networks
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
NFS sensitivity to high performance networks
SIGMETRICS '99 Proceedings of the 1999 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
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The Network File System protocol (NFS) has been the leading distributed file system for workstations since it was first introduced by Sun Microsystems in 1986. The geographical scale of NFS has been limited to the local area due to its relatively low performance on the wide area Internet. However, with the advent of high bandwidth wide area networks such as ATM, NFS over WANs may become more promising. In this paper, the performance of NFS over various sizes of WAN is studied. The effects of ATM flow- control and queuing strategies on NFS are discussed, as are the performance of TCP and UDP as NFS transport proto cols. The primary conclusion is that standard NFS over UDP works well over ATM WANs as long as ATM-level flow control keeps the cell loss rate under one percent. In some cases, NFS over TCP works badly with small packets due to unfortunate interactions with TCP's congestion window.