Experiments and Simulations of TCP/IP Over ATM Over a High Data ...

Experimental and Simulation Performance Results of TCP/IP over High-Speed ATM over ACTS, by Charalambous P.C. 17
average of ten trials. For comparison, let us note here that the average RTT in the local
ATM network, shown in Figure 3, is only 0.1 ms, while the average RTT in the AAI
WAN, shown in the same gure, is 39 ms. The satellite round trip latency is the sum
of the propagation delay over the satellite link, the transmission delay of ATM cells,
the ATM segmentation and reassembly (SAR) delay, the processing delay within the
TCP/IP stack, and the propagation delay through the terrestrial ber networks used
to connect the hosts under test with the ground stations. Of these factors, the satellite
propagation time is by far the dominant.
The send and receive buffer sizes to fully utilize the OC-3 ATM link and for optimal
performance, were calculated according to equation (2). As shown below, the minimum
window size required for maximum throughput is about 9 MB. In our experiments we
used a transmit and receive window size of 10 MB.
W indow Size = 534ms 134:513Mbps =71:829942Mbits =8:563MB
We obtained the performance results shown in Table 3 with a standard deviation ()
of 5.5442 Mbps.
6.2 Parameters and results from scenario 2
In this experimental scenario, as shown in Figure 1, an OC-12 satellite link was established
between the TIOC and GSFC. At the transmitting end an OC-12c UltraSPARC
workstation (faraday), and at the receiving end another OC-12c UltraSPARC worksta-