Improving GridFTP performance using the Phoebus session layer

Proceedings of the Conference on High Performance Computing Networking, Storage and Analysis, SC '09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Kissel, Ezra ^a   Swany, Martin ^a   Brown, Aaron ^b  

^a University of Delaware   (United States)

^b Internet2 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA MOVEMENTS; END-TO-END THROUGHPUT; GRIDFTP; HIGH BANDWIDTH; HOP BY HOP; LOSS RATES; NETWORK RESOURCE; NETWORK TESTBEDS; SESSION LAYERS; STATE OF THE ART; TRANSPORT CONNECTIONS; TRANSPORT MECHANISM; TRANSPORT PROTOCOLS;

GATEWAYS (COMPUTER NETWORKS); GRID COMPUTING;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 74049113745     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1654059.1654094     Document Type: Conference Paper

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