The presentations were given on 04 April 2008 at ESTEC in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.
The objective of the TOP project is to develop an alternative congestion control scheme, fully interoperable with the I-PEP specification introduced by the SatLabs group, and specifically aimed at optimizing web browsing performance in the I-PEP environment, while maintaining good performance for other TCP traffic.
The SaNTA (Satellite Network Transport Architecture) protocol addresses satellite communication systems in which communication resources are allocated dynamically on demand (Demand Assignment Multiple Access - DAMA). SaNTA is an architecture designed to provide an efficient exploitation of TCP traffic over long-latency satellite links, which are typically limited by congestion control mechanisms. For this purpose, it breaks the traditional end-to-end paradigm and uses a split architecture where intermediate nodes impersonate end nodes for accelerating TCP acknowledgments. The presentation given on April 4 concerned the last phase of the project; tests of SaNTA over the AmerHIS payload.
To download the documents shown at the presentation, click on the documentation links located in the right column of this page. More information regarding TOP and SaNTA can be found by clicking on the related links located in the right column of this page.
