Abstract

The authors report a preliminary analysis of the processing overhead of the transport protocol TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) in which they estimate the possible performance range of the protocol. The analysis was performed by compiling a version of TCP and counting the number of the instructions in the common path. The analysis suggests that fewer than 200 instructions are required to process a TCP packet in the normal case. This number is small enough to support very high-speed transmission if it were the major overhead. The authors offer some speculations about the actual source of processing overhead in network protocols. >

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