NPAC Technical Report SCCS-678

Protocol Overhead in ATM Networks

Mahesh Subramanyan

Submitted December 16 1994


Abstract

This report discusses the performance and sources of protocol overhead in ATM networks. It first introduces ATM followed by a description of the inhouse ATM network. Our primary goal was to study the performance tradeoff of chosing TCP/IP versus ATM API in a local ATM network.


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