A
History of the Improvement of Internet Protocols Over Satellites
using ACTS
Hans
Kruse, Mark Allman, Shawn Ostermann
Abstract
This
paper outlines the main results of a number of ACTS experiments
on the efficacy of using standard Internet protocols over
long-delay satellite channels. These experiments have been
jointly conducted by NASA’s Glenn Research Center
and Ohio University over the last six years.
The
focus of our investigations has been the impact of long-delay
networks with non-zero bit-error rates on the performance
of the suite of Internet protocols. In
particular, we have focused on the most widely used transport
protocol, the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), as well
as several application layer protocols. This paper presents
our main results, as well as references
to more verbose discussions of our experiments.
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