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@Article{Clark:1993:AGT,
  author =       "David D. Clark and Bruce S. Davie and David J. Farber
                 and Inder S. Gopal and Bharath K. Kadaba and W. David
                 Sincoskie and Jonathan M. Smith and David L.
                 Tennenhouse",
  title =        "The {AURORA} gigabit testbed",
  journal =      j-COMP-NET-ISDN,
  volume =       "25",
  number =       "6",
  pages =        "599--621",
  month =        Jan,
  year =         "1993",
  CODEN =        "CNISE9",
  ISSN =         "0169-7552 (print), 1879-2324 (electronic)",
  ISSN-L =       "0169-7552",
  bibdate =      "Sat Sep 25 15:30:02 1999",
  bibsource =    "ftp://ftp.ira.uka.de/pub/bibliography/Distributed/networks.bib;
                 http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/compnetisdn.bib",
  abstract =     "{AURORA} is one of five U.S. networking testbeds
                 charged with exploring applications of, and
                 technologies necessary for, networks operating at
                 gigabit per second or higher bandwidths. The emphasis
                 of the {AURORA} testbed, distinct from the other four
                 testbeds, {BLANCA}, {CASA}. {NECTAR} and {VISTANET}, is
                 research into the supporting technologies for gigabit
                 networking. Like the other testbeds, {AURORA} itself is
                 an experiment in collaboration, where government
                 initiative (in the form of the Corporation for National
                 Research Initiatives, which is funded by {DARPA} and
                 the National Science Foundation) has spurred
                 interaction among pre-existing centres of excellence in
                 industry, academia and government. {AURORA} has been
                 charged with research into networking technologies that
                 will underpin future high-speed networks. This paper
                 provides an overview of the goals and methodologies
                 employed in {AURORA}, and points to some preliminary
                 results from our first year of research, ranging from
                 analytic results to experimental prototype hardware.
                 This paper enunciates out targets, which include new
                 software architectures, network abstractions, and
                 hardware technologies, as well as applications for our
                 work.",
  acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
  journal-URL =  "http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01697552",
  memo =         "{AURORA} makes use of both {ATM} (Asynchronous
                 Transfer Mode) and {PTM} (Packet Transfer Mode)
                 technologies, and will eventually be researching
                 methods to interwork between the two different systems.
                 ``The most popular abstractions for today's networks
                 are the reliable byte stream and the remote procedure
                 call ({RPC}).'' ``Remote procedure calls, because they
                 represent serialized rather than parallel
                 communications across a network, degrade directly with
                 increasing network latency.'' It is possible to model
                 network communications in terms of access to shared
                 memory resources. Although this can suffer from the
                 same basic latency problems as reliable byte streams
                 and traditional {RPC}, virtual memory management
                 techniques may be used to reduce the effects
                 significantly. {AURORA} is exploring the use of the
                 testbed network for video conferencing and multimedia
                 communications systems. They feel that still and moving
                 video data will constitute the largest part of the
                 loading upon future networks. The {AURORA} project
                 partners are developing host interfaces for
                 {TURBOchannel} based {DEC} workstations, {RS/6000's}
                 and {PS/2's} which will span the range from pure
                 hardware implementations to programmable hardware and
                 software combinations. {IBM} are developing the Rapid
                 Transport Protocol for {AURORA} which is a transport
                 protocol specifically designed for use at gigabit/sec
                 speeds. Data can be sent in the first packet, thus
                 facilitating fast connection setup times and both
                 Go-Back-N and selective repeat error recovery
                 mechanisms are provided. ``The performance [of DSM]
                 results from the similarity between the network
                 abstraction and the abstraction of addressable memory
                 used by processing units''",
  refs =         "34",
  where =        "Pilkington Library",
}

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