The performance of TCP over ATM networks

• Main Author: Wang, Yuyang.
• Other Authors: Tan, Chee Heng
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Computer hardware, software and systems
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/13285
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

One of the problems in transmitting TCP/IP traffic over ATM networks is that a TCP/IP packet is transported over several ATM cells, and whenever a single cell is lost in the ATM network, the whole packet has to be discarded, causing a waste of bandwidth to transmit the other cells of the packet. EPD...