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ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review archive
Volume 20 , Issue 1 (January 1990) table of contents

Pages: 44 - 53

Year of Publication: 1989

ISSN:0146-4833

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Craig Partridge

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

At first blush, one would expect that increasing data network transfer rates by two orders of magnitude (from the ubiquitous 10 Mbit speed of today's LANs to the greater than 1 gigabit-per-second speeds we expect of networks in the early 1990s) would severely impact our choice of network protocols and architectures. This report presents the strawman argument that, in fact, moving to one-gigabit data rates presents surprisingly few problems.

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	1	[1] Anthony S. Acampora and Mark J. Karol, "An Overview of Lightwave Packet Networks," IEEE Network, Vol. 3, No. 1, January 1989, pp. 29-41.
	2	[2] David D. Clark, Van Jacobson, John Romkey, and Howard Salwen, "An Analysis of TCP Processing Overhead," IEEE Communications , Vol. 27, No. 6, July 1989, pp. 23-29. Most of the computation in this report was done with the earlier version of the paper, published in the Proc. 13th LAN Conference (Minneapolis, 1988).
	3	[3] Van Jacobson, "Congestion Avoidance and Control," Proc. ACM SIGCOMM '88, Stanford, Calif., August 1988, pp. 314-329.
	4	[4] R. Jain, "On Caching Out-of-Order Packets in Window Flow Controlled Networks," Tech-Report 342, Digital Equipment Corporation, January 1985.
	5	John Nagle, Congestion control in IP/TCP internetworks, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, v.14 n.4, p.11-17, October 1984 [doi>10.1145/1024908.1024910]

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	Craig Partridge , Philip P. Carvey , Ed Burgess , Isidro Castineyra , Tom Clarke , Lise Graham , Michael Hathaway , Phil Herman , Allen King , Steve Kohalmi , Tracy Ma , John Mcallen , Trevor Mendez , Walter C. Milliken , Ronald Pettyjohn , John Rokosz , Joshua Seeger , Michael Sollins , Steve Storch , Benjamin Tober , Gregory D. Troxel, A 50-Gb/s IP router, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), v.6 n.3, p.237-248, June 1998
	Michael Fry, Practical trade-offs for open interconnection, Proceedings of the 1992 ACM annual conference on Communications, p.1-8, March 03-05, 1992, Kansas City, Missouri, United States
	C. C.-D. Jung , D. Advani, HiPPI exploitation in TCP/IP environment, Proceedings of the 1992 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing, p.610-615, November 16-20, 1992, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
	Gregory G. Finn, An integration of network communication with workstation architecture, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, v.21 n.5, p.18-29, Oct. 1991
	O. Rose, The Q-bit scheme: congestion avoidance using rate-adaptation, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, v.22 n.2, p.29-42, April 1992
	Danny Cohen , Gregory G. Finn , Robert Felderman , Annette DeSchon, The use of message-based multicomputer components to construct gigabit networks, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, v.23 n.3, p.32-44, July 1993