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@Article{Partridge:1993:PHS,
author = "Craig Partridge",
title = "Protocols for high-speed networks: some questions and
a few answers",
journal = j-COMP-NET-ISDN,
volume = "25",
number = "9",
pages = "1019--1028",
month = apr,
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 = "A personal view of the goals and challenges of gigabit
networking is presented. The paper takes the form of a
series of questions and attempts to answer (or
characterise the possible answers to the questions).",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
email = "craig@aland.bbn.com",
journal-URL = "http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01697552",
memos = "A commonly mentioned BER is one bit in error in
$10^12$ bits. Work on gigabit networking technology and
systems is underway in USA, England, Sweden and
Germany. Uses for gigabit networks include multimedia
conferences, VR, distributed processing and high speed
I/O systems for future computers. Non-linear computing
(using machines with different capabilities for
different parts of a program) require some bandwidth
guarantees; ``1 gigabyte of data is transferred over a
network in which one link runs at only 19.6 kilobits;
the transfer will take at least 115 {\em hours}''.
Guarantees in gigabit networks will have to relate to
network delay, bandwidth, reliability, failure
recovery, service setup times and interarrival times.
Most current network protocols are not attentive to
delay bounds required by applications. Parallel
(asynchronous) RPC, remote execution/evaluation and
distributed memory systems are all attempts to hide
network delay from the application programmer. ``The
delay-bandwidth product is the amount of unacknowledged
data that can be in flight and is equal to the maximum
round-trip delay through the network times the network
bandwidth.''",
references = "37",
}