This document describes the Satellite Transport Protocol (STP), an experimental transport protocol for use over IP-compatible networks that was developed under the University of California, Berkeley’s BARWAN research project. STP was originally developed for the BSDi Unix operating system and was subsequently ported to FreeBSD Unix, and is freely available at ftp://daedalus.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/...

Transport protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are designed to fulfill both reliability and energy efficiency requirements. Distributed Transport for Sensor Networks (DTSN) [1] is one of the most promising transport protocols designed for WSNs because of its effectiveness; however, it does not address any security issues, hence it is vulnerable to many attacks. The first secure transpo...

This document describes the messages and procedures of the Negativeacknowledgment (NACK) Oriented Reliable Multicast (NORM) protocol. This protocol is designed to provide end-to-end reliable transport of bulk data objects or streams over generic IP multicast routing and forwarding services. NORM uses a selective, negative acknowledgment mechanism for transport reliability and offers additional ...

The increasing popularity of wireless networks indicates that wireless links will play an important role in future inter-networks. Transport protocol as an essential part of the whole protocol hierarchy provides end-to-end communication between two or more communication hosts. In theory, transport protocol should be independent of the technology of the underlying network layer. However, in prac...

This paper describes the design and implementation of a protocol scrubber, a transparent interposition mechanism for explicitly removing network attacks at both the transport and application protocol layers. The transport scrubber supports downstream passive network-based intrusion detection systems; whereas the application scrubbing mechanism supports transparent fail-closed active network-bas...

The explosion of the e–community has spurred the need for a more global communication paradigm. Today, more people than ever are using mobile ad hoc networks to fulfill their communication needs. In particular, LEO satellite access networks are gaining popularity as an alternative or a complimentary way to get connected. Being both wireless and mobile, these networks have a unique set of link e...

Status of this Memo This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community. It does not specify an Inter-net standard of any kind. Discussion and suggestions for improvement are requested. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Abstract Pragmatic General Multicast (PGM) is a reliable multicast transport protocol for applications that require ordered or unordered, duplicate-free,...

We recently introduced a new ow control scheme, called send-time control, which is based on a deterministic model of virtual circuits in a computer network. In this scheme, the time at which a packet is sent by a source is computed from estimates of round-trip time, traac in the network and bottleneck service time. In this paper, we describe a new transport protocol, called DTP, which uses send...

This paper describes a framework of QoS management for one-to-many multicast communications in the context of a new multicast transport protocol called the Enhanced Communication Transport Protocol (ECTP). ECTP is a transport protocol designed to support Internet multicast applications, such as audio and video, which is currently being standardised in ITU.T SG7. ECTP operates over IP networks t...