ADAPTIVE A Framework for Experimenting with High-Performance Transport System Process Architectures

Recent advances in VLSI and fiber optic technology are shifting application performance bottlenecks from the underlying networks to the transport system and higher-layer communication protocols. Developing process architectures that effectively utilize multi-processing is one promising technique for alleviating these performance bottlenecks. This paper describes a flexible framework called ADAPTIVE that supports the development of, and experimentation with, process architectures for multi-processor platforms. ADAPTIVE provides a modular, object-oriented framework that generates application-tailored protocol configurations and maps these configurations onto suitable process architectures that satisfy multimedia application performance requirements on high-speed networks. This paper describes several alternative process architectures and outlines the techniques used in ADAPTIVE to support controlled experimentation with these