A History of the Improvement of Internet Protocols Over Satellites Using ACTS
Mark C. Allman, Nasa Grc, Hans Kruse, Shawn Ostermann · 2000
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. 1 Introduction The work presented in this paper started in 1994 as a series of experiments to determine the impact of a geosynchronous satellite link in a network path on the standard TCP/IP Internet suite of protocols [Ste94]. Our investigations are important for several reasons. Fir...