Protocol boosters: Applying programmability to network infrastructures

WS Marcus, I Hadzic, AJ McAuley… - IEEE Communications …, 1998 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Feldmeier for his help and vision in launching the Protocol Booster project, Tom Raleigh
and Sunil Madhani for their work on the kernel-level implementation, and Deborah Bakin for …

P4-based hybrid error control booster providing new design tradeoffs in wireless networks

A McAuley, YM Gottlieb, L Kant, J Lee… - … 2019-2019 IEEE …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… Error Control Protocol Boosters can be applied anywhere in the network or end system
as individual elements or as pairs [6]. Error control boosters can read higher layer control …

[PDF][PDF] ACTIVE Interconnects: Let's Have Some Guts

J Smith, I Hadzic, W Marcus - Proc. of Hot Interconnects, 1998 - researchgate.net
… -and-Forward" (STF) model developed by Smith in 1993, and first applied with David Feldmeier
in the design of “Protocol Boosters.” [FMS+98]. In the STF model, the translation point is …

Portable programmable Layer 3 QoS for Tactical MANETs: A P4/PSA-based architectural approach

A Poylisher, YM Gottlieb, L Kant - MILCOM 2019-2019 IEEE …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… with concrete examples derived from our ongoing DCOMP work, including source-computed
multipath forwarding, rate control based on per-hop measurements, and protocol boosters. …

A delay-tolerant network architecture for challenged internets

K Fall - Proceedings of the 2003 conference on Applications …, 2003 - dl.acm.org
… While protocol boosters are conceived with the idea that they are entirely transparent to
end-protocols, this assumption limits their overall ability to improve performance when subnet …

[PDF][PDF] Reflections on Active Networking

JM Smith - Dept. Comput. Inform. Sci., Univ. Pennsylvania, Tech …, 2003 - core.ac.uk
… David Feldmeier was both a collaborator and a student, and great source of ideas - Protocol
Boosters was our first stab at getting this right, and we continued to work together on Active …

Conductor: A framework for distributed adaptation

M Yarvis, P Reiher, GJ Popek - … of the Seventh Workshop on Hot …, 1999 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Protocol Boosters [7] allow multiple booster objects to be composed together and dynamically
distributed along a data path, augmenting the transmission protocol. Resilience to adaptor …

A multilayer IP security protocol for TCP performance enhancement in wireless networks

Y Zhang - IEEE Journal on selected areas in communications, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… over wireless links,” IEEE/ACM Trans. Networking, pp. 756–769, Dec. … , and R. Prakash,
“A feedback-based scheme for improving TCP performance in ad hoc wir eless networks,” IEEE

Hybrid ARQ for robust video streaming over wireless LANs

DG Sachs, I Kozintsev, M Yeung… - … Technology: Coding and …, 2001 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… One such method is the use of “protocol boosters” [ 1 1, which are proxies that can be
used inside existing protocols to adapt them for various different stream types and network …

Balancing performance and flexibility with hardware support for network architectures

I Hadžić, JM Smith - ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS), 2003 - dl.acm.org
Protocol Boosters [Feldmeier et al. 1998], offered dynamic protocol adaptation by inserting
and removing processing modules from the protocol graph on an as-needed basis. The Click …