SABUL: A high performance data transfer protocol
Yunhong Gu, Xinwei Hong, Robert L. Grossman · 2003
The paper describes a general purpose high performance data transfer protocol for data intensive applications over high bandwidth networks. The protocol, named SABUL, has demonstrated the efficiency and fairness features in both experimental and practical applications. SABUL is a lightweight, reliable, application level protocol. It uses UDP to transfer data and TCP to feedback control messages. The protocol uses a rate based congestion control that tunes the inter-packet time. This algorithm is proven to be TCP friendly. In addition, the protocol also specifies the transparent memory copy avoidance.