{"title":"Improved algorithms for synchronizing computer network clocks","authors":"D. Mills","doi":"10.1145/190314.190343","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/190314.190343","url":null,"abstract":"The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is widely deployed in the Internet to synchronize computer clocks to each other and to international standards via telephone modem, radio and satellite. The protocols and algorithms have evolved over more than a decade to produce the present NTP Version 3 specification and implementations. Most of the estimated deployment of 100,000 NTP servers and clients enjoy synchronization to within a few tens of milliseconds in the Internet of today. This paper describes specific improvements developed for NTP Version 3 which have resulted in increased accuracy, stability and reliability in both local-area and wide-area networks. These include engineered refinements of several algorithms used to measure time differences between a local clock and a number of peer clocks in the network, as well as to select the best ensemble from among a set of peer clocks and combine their differences to produce a clock accuracy better than any in the ensemble. This paper also describes engineered refinements of the algorithms used to adjust the time and frequency of the local clock, which functions as a disciplined oscillator. The refinements provide automatic adjustment of message-exchange intervals in order to minimize network traffic between clients and busy servers while maintaining the best accuracy. Finally, this paper describes certain enhancements to the Unix operating system software in order to realize submillisecond accuracies with fast workstations and networks.","PeriodicalId":142337,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the conference on Communications architectures, protocols and applications","volume":"187 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132976290","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Highly dynamic Destination-Sequenced Distance-Vector routing (DSDV) for mobile computers","authors":"C. Perkins, P. Bhagwat","doi":"10.1145/190314.190336","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/190314.190336","url":null,"abstract":"An ad-hoc network is the cooperative engagement of a collection of Mobile Hosts without the required intervention of any centralized Access Point. In this paper we present an innovative design for the operation of such ad-hoc networks. The basic idea of the design is to operate each Mobile Host as a specialized router, which periodically advertises its view of the interconnection topology with other Mobile Hosts within the network. This amounts to a new sort of routing protocol. We have investigated modifications to the basic Bellman-Ford routing mechanisms, as specified by RIP [5], to make it suitable for a dynamic and self-starting network mechanism as is required by users wishing to utilize ad hoc networks. Our modifications address some of the previous objections to the use of Bellman-Ford, related to the poor looping properties of such algorithms in the face of broken links and the resulting time dependent nature of the interconnection topology describing the links between the Mobile Hosts. Finally, we describe the ways in which the basic network-layer routing can be modified to provide MAC-layer support for ad-hoc networks.","PeriodicalId":142337,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the conference on Communications architectures, protocols and applications","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115965883","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Controlling alternate routing in general-mesh packet flow networks","authors":"S. Sibal, A. DeSimone","doi":"10.1145/190314.190330","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/190314.190330","url":null,"abstract":"High-speed packet networks will begin to support services that need Quality-of-Service (QoS) guarantees. Guaranteeing QoS typically translates to reserving resources for the duration of a call. We propose a state-dependent routing scheme that builds on any base state-independent routing scheme, by routing flows which are blocked on their primary paths (as selected by the state-independent scheme) onto alternate paths in a manner that is guaranteed—under certain Poisson assumptions— to improve on the performance of the base state-independent scheme. Our scheme only requires each node to have state information of those links that are incident on it. Such a scheme is of value when either the base state-independent scheme is already in place and a complete overhaul of the routing algorithm is undesirable, or when the state (reserved flows) of a link changes fast enough that the timely update of state information is infeasible to all possible call-originators. The performance improvements due to our controlled alternate routing scheme are borne out from simulations conducted on a fully-connected 4-node network, as well as on a sparsely-connected 12-node network modeled on the NSFNet T3 Backbone.","PeriodicalId":142337,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the conference on Communications architectures, protocols and applications","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126512024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Asymptotic resource consumption in multicast reservation styles","authors":"Danny J. Mitzel, S. Shenker","doi":"10.1145/190314.190335","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/190314.190335","url":null,"abstract":"The goal of network design is to meet the needs of resident applications in an efficient manner. Adding real-time service and point-to-multipoint multicast routing to the Internet's traditional point-to-point best effort service model will greatly increase the Internet's efficiency in handling point-to-multipoint real-time applications. Recently, the RSVP resource reservation protocol has introduced the concept of “reservation styles”, which control how reservations are aggregated in multipoint-to-multipoint real-time applications. In this paper, which is an extension of [9], we analytically evaluate the efficiency gains offered by this new paradigm on three simple network topologies: linear, m-tree, and star. We compare the resource utilization of more traditional reservation approaches to the RSVP reservation styles in the asymptotic limit of large multipoint applications. We find that in several cases the efficiency improvements scale linearly in the number of hosts.","PeriodicalId":142337,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the conference on Communications architectures, protocols and applications","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129550423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Experiences of building an ATM switch for the local area","authors":"Richard Black, I. Leslie, D. McAuley","doi":"10.1145/190314.190329","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/190314.190329","url":null,"abstract":"The Fairisle project was concerned with ATM in the local area. An earlier paper [9] described the preliminary work and plans for the project. Here we present the experiences we have had with the Fairisle network, describing how implementation has changed over the life of the project, the lessons learned, and some conclusions about the work so far.","PeriodicalId":142337,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the conference on Communications architectures, protocols and applications","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125531699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conflict-free channel assignment for an optical cluster-based shuffle network configuration","authors":"K. A. Aly","doi":"10.1145/190314.190333","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/190314.190333","url":null,"abstract":"A passive optical realization of large expandable shuffle networks is considered, where the general (p, k) shuffle function interconnects star-coupled clusters of time and/or wavelength multiplexed nodes. This configuration enables network partitioning into independent subnetworks that can emulate various indirect cube topologies on a virtual point-to-point basis. Node transmitters are assigned fixed channels and reconfiguring the partition and/or the individual sub-network topologies is achieved by monitoring the appropriate channels. The considered network configuration can function as a general-purpose optical interconnect for a variety of heterogeneous traffic sources, such as multicomputers and ATM network interface units, communicating independently within logically defined subnetworks. The paper derives a conflict-free channel partition and assignment map for a general (p, k) cluster shuffle using a minimal number of channel sets.","PeriodicalId":142337,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the conference on Communications architectures, protocols and applications","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125277126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Signaling and operating system support for native-mode ATM applications","authors":"Rosen Sharma, S. Keshav","doi":"10.1145/190314.190328","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/190314.190328","url":null,"abstract":"Applications communicating over connectionless networks, such as IP, cannot obtain per-connection Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees. In contrast, the connection-oriented nature of the ATM layer and its per-virtual-circuit QoS guarantees are visible to a native-mode ATM application. We describe the design and implementation of operating system and signaling support for native-mode applications, independent of the semantics of the protocol layers or of the signaling protocol. The work was done in the context of a Unix-like operating system and the Xunet 2 wide-area high-speed ATM network. The IPC-based interface between an application and the signaling entity allows processes to request parameterized virtual circuits, and the signaling-kernel interface allows resources to be reclaimed from prematurely terminating processes. We also built a simple encapsulation layer over raw IP that allows any host with IP access to send AAL frames into the wide-area network with little performance degradation. Our design makes it simple to port existing TCP/IP socket applications to a native-mode ATM protocol stack and also enables interoperation of existing IP networks with our ATM network. Our experience has been positive - the design is robust, easily extendible and scales well with the number of open connections.","PeriodicalId":142337,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the conference on Communications architectures, protocols and applications","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125129815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design and implementation of a prototype optical deflection network","authors":"J. Feehrer, J. Sauer, L. Ramfelt","doi":"10.1145/190314.190332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/190314.190332","url":null,"abstract":"We describe the design and implementation of a packet-switched fiber optic interconnect prototype with a ShuffleNet topology, intended for use in shared-memory multiprocessors. Coupled with existing latency-hiding mechanisms, it can reduce latency to remote memory locations. Nodes use deflection routing to resolve contention. Each node contains a processor, memory, photonic switch, and packet routing processor. Payload remains in optical form from source to final destination. Each host processor is a commercial workstation with FIFO interfaces between its bus and the photonic switch. A global clock is distributed optically to each node to minimize skew. Component costs and network performance figures are presented for various node configurations including bit-per-wavelength and fiber-parallel packet formats. Our efforts to implement and test a practical interconnect including real host computers distinguishes our work from previous theoretical and experimental work. We summarize obstacles we encountered and discuss future work.","PeriodicalId":142337,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the conference on Communications architectures, protocols and applications","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133543291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dynamics of TCP traffic over ATM networks","authors":"A. Romanow, S. Floyd","doi":"10.1145/190314.190322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/190314.190322","url":null,"abstract":"We investigate the performance of TCP connections over ATM networks without ATM-level congestion control, and compare it to the performance of TCP over packet-based networks. For simulations of congested networks, the effective throughput of TCP over ATM can be quite low when cells are dropped at the congested ATM switch. The low throughput is due to wasted bandwidth as the congested link transmits cells from “corrupted” packets, i.e., packets in which at least one cell is dropped by the switch. This fragmentation effect can be corrected and high throughput can be achieved if the switch drops whole packets prior to buffer overflow; we call this strategy Early Packet Discard. We also discuss general issues of congestion avoidance for best-effort traffic in ATM networks.","PeriodicalId":142337,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the conference on Communications architectures, protocols and applications","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116570707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An object-based approach to protocol software implementation","authors":"Chung-Shyan Liu","doi":"10.1145/190314.190342","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/190314.190342","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, an object-based approach to protocol software implementation is presented. A protocol is specified by an FSM, then the FSM is implemented by a group of related objects. In our method, each state is implemented by an object. The member functions of an object are the interface vents that trigger state transitions, and actions associated with state transitions constitute the body of the member functions. An object becomes another object if a state transition is enabled. A real example is given for illustration. We also present a software tool that lets a designer edit a state machine graphically, and generates C++ class definitions automatically. We also discuss some implementation related issues and present an organization model for protocol layers.","PeriodicalId":142337,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the conference on Communications architectures, protocols and applications","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129016535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}