The failure of TCP in high-performance computational grids

Proceedings of the International Conference on Supercomputing

Volumn 2000-November, Issue , 2000, Pages

  Feng, W ^a,b   Tinnakornsrisuphap, P ^c  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational grid; Distributed computing; Network traffic characterization; Self similarity; TCP

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL; WIDE AREA NETWORKS;

COMPUTATIONAL GRIDS; END-TO-END COMMUNICATION; NETWORK TRAFFIC; NETWORK TRAFFIC CHARACTERIZATIONS; PERFORMANCE; POOR PERFORMANCE; SELF-SIMILAR; SELF-SIMILARITIES; TCP PERFORMANCE; WIDE-AREA NETWORKS;

GRID COMPUTING;

EID: 85117177333     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SC.2000.10039     Document Type: Conference Paper

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