Interactions of Link-Layer and Transport Protocols

This page is not a complete list of references to the related work. We have tried to be selective in what papers to cite, but there are surely good papers that we are not aware of or have forgot about. We would be happy to be notified about such papers, so please feel free to drop us a mail.

Maintained by Pasi Sarolahti and Sally Floyd.

Table of Contents:

Related Web Pages
IETF History in this Area
End-to-End Performance Enhancements
Link Layer based Performance Enhancements
Cross-layer Communication Mechanisms
Mid Boxes
Security
Router Performance & Hardware Protocol Processing
Radicalities
General Background:
End-to-End Principle & Congestion Control
Quality of Service
Other Pointers to Literature

Related Web Pages:


IETF History in this Area

End-to-End Performance Enhancements

For citations, see TCP and Other Transport Protocols over X and Other Changes Proposed to TCP.

Link Layer based Performance Enhancements

Another class of performance enhancements are those that operate purely on link layer. As with the above section, there are lots of work done in this category, and only a few items are selected.

Cross-Layer Communication Mechanisms

Papers that discuss some form of link-layer/transport interaction.

Mid Boxes

The effect of intermediate proxies, NATs and Firewalls need to be discussed when designing enhancements to end-to-end communication.

Security

Discussing security issues related to transport protocols and in- and outband signaling.

Router Performance & Hardware Protocol Processing

Understanding performance issues on packet processing is important when designing triggers that are meant to be processed at busy routers.

Radicalities

These papers discuss revolutionary ideas on the Internet architecture.

End-to-End Principle & Congestion Control

Classical Papers. To remind about the basic rules that have to be dealt with.

Quality of Service

QoS mechanisms such as DiffServ are one form of signaling between the network (including link layer) and the transport end points.

Other Pointers to Literature

Web pages that have more pointers to interesting papers.

To be added:


Pasi Sarolahti
Last modified: November 2007.