Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports

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This archive contains a collection of reports generated by the faculty and students of the Institute for Systems Research (ISR), a permanent, interdisciplinary research unit in the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland. ISR-based projects are conducted through partnerships with industry and government, bringing together faculty and students from multiple academic departments and colleges across the university.

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    An Architecture for Internet Service via Broadband Satellite Networks
    (1999) Bharadwaj, Vijay G.; Baras, John S.; Butts, Norman P.; Baras, John S.; ISR; CSHCN
    High bandwidth satellites hold out the promise of a rapidly deployablecommunications infrastructure with a natural support for mobility. However,the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), widely used in the Internet, performspoorly over satellite links, and this presents an obstacle to thedeployment of such systems. We present an architecture that overcomesthese problems and provides an approach to building complex heterogeneousnetworks from simple units. We also present some results from our initialimplementation, which uses TCP connection splitting to improve TCPperformance over satellite links.