Date: Tue, 9 May 95 11:43:58 EDT From: Richard Colella <colella@snad.ncsl.nist.gov> To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Pointer to ATM performance work? Cc: colella@nist.gov
I seem to remember discussion at one of the meetings of some ATM performance work that looked at the benefits of discarding whole TCP packets when a cell was dropped. Can someone give me a pointer to this?
I recommend the following, for a start: A. Romanow and R. Oskouy, "A performance Enhancement for Packetized ABR and VBR+ Data," ATM Forum/94-0295, March, 1994. [A short proposal that ATM switches implement EPD] A. Romanow, "TCP over ATM: Some Performance Results," ATM Forum/93-784, July, 1993, available via anonymous FTP from: playground.sun.com:/pub/tcp_atm/tcp_forum.7_93.ps [Primarily background. Says: "We also plan to explore RED..."] A. Romanow, Packet Discard Strategies for Controlling ATM Congestion, ATM Forum/94-0107, January, 1994. ["... Viewgraphs will be distributed at the meeting."] A. Romanow and S. Floyd, "The Dynamics of TCP Traffic over ATM Networks," available via anonymous FTP from: playground.sun.com:/pub/tcp_atm/tcpatm.jsac.ps see also .../tcpatm_extended.00.ps [Explores Partial Packet Discard and Early Packet Discard.] S. Floyd and V. Jacobson, "Randor Early Detection Gateways for Congestion Avoidance," IEEE/ATM Trans. on Networking, vol.1 no.4, pp. 29-41, Sept. 1993. [I think this is the original RED paper.] You might also look at: S. Floyd, "TCP and Explicit Congestion Notification," available via anonymous FTP from: ftp.ee.lbl.gov:papers/tcp_ecn.4.ps.Z Once you have read these, I have a list of more general papers about TCP performance over ATM... -tjs