Demultiplexing on the ATM adapter: Experiments with Internet protocols in user space

Issue title: HIPPARCH

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Biersack, Ernst W. | Rütsche, Erich

Affiliations: Eurecom, B.P. 193, 06904 Sophia Antipolis, Cedex, France. E-mail: erbi@eurecom.fr, rue@zh.xmit.ch

Abstract: We took a public domain implementation of the TCP/IP protocol stack and ported into user space. The user space implementation was then optimized by a one-to-one mapping of transport connections onto ATM connections and a packet filter. We describe the user space implementation and compare its latency and throughput performance with the existing kernel implementation.

Keywords: ATM, TCP/IP, protocol implementation

DOI: 10.3233/JHS-1996-5208

Journal: Journal of High Speed Networks, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 193-201, 1996