Hi all, [Sorry for those of you that are on this mailing list and UKNOT as I am sending the same post to both!]
I need some help to gather research. I am conducting some research on the efficiency of Ethernet, IP, TCP & UDP, all individually, and how interacting with each other (and in various situations, LANs, WANs, satellite links, WLAN, long-haul Ethernet and so on). I will also be looking at how hardware affects the software protocols on top (shallow interface buffers, MTU (mis)configurations, ICMP filtering, QoS in hardware and so on). I will be looking at how all this stuff ties together to affect network performance. Does anyone know of any good peer reviewed papers, or journals, articles etc (so credible sources) on this/these subject/s? Are there any "defacto" papers that everyone who is studying efficiency *should* read? I should clarify: The more recent the better (the topic made be old, but papers should be published within the last 10 years or so). This research will form part of two projects; One is my Msc dissertation, and other is a personal additional research project I am conducting to explore ideas that fall out side of the scope of my dissertation. Many thanks, James.
