Masking the overhead of protocol layering

Protocol Layering and Internet Policy

Masking redux. II: A recommended masking protocol.

This is the second in a series of two papers on masking. The objective of these papers is to develop a masking protocol that provides valid measures of threshold and is, in general, faster than the plateau method. In the first paper, a masking method was presented that can replace the traditional plateau method in most masking situations. This new method is optimized to require fewer masking le...

Trading Fault-Masking with Performance Overhead for FPGAs

Reliability issues become an important design concern with technology scaling. This paper introduces a novel methodology for balancing the desired fault masking and the consequence delay and power overheads due to redundancy. Experimental results shown that our solution outperforms similar approaches since it achieves average delay and power savings up to 25% and 35%, respectively, for comparab...

Protocol Overhead in Atm Networks Sccs-678

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

How Layering Protocol Software Violates Separation of Concerns

We show how layering in communication software violates the principle of separating concerns. Examples illustrate that layering couples receiver-and sender functions, sharing message headers among layers creates dependencies between layers that largely compromise re-usability, QoS management is scattered over all layers, and layers are tightly coupled with the sub-system that executes it. Layer...