Contents

• DEDICATION
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• List of Tables
• List of Figures
• Introduction
  • History
  • STREAMS Architecture
    • Message Handling
    • Multiplexing
    • Service Interfaces
• Previous Work
• Evaluating STREAMS stacks and APIs over High Performance Networks
  • Goals and Contributions
  • Measurement Procedures and Testbed Configuration
    • Testbed
    • Evaluation Benchmarks
  • Experimental Results
    • DLPI, TLI, and Sockets over Fast Ethernet
    • Loopback STREAMS Driver
    • DLPI, TLI, and Sockets over Gigabit Ethernet
    • Summary
• BSD versus STREAMS Protocol Stack Implementations
  • Goals and Contributions
    • The BSD Architecture
  • Measurement Procedures and Testbed Configuration
    • Testbed
    • Evaluation Benchmarks
  • Experimental Results
    • Loopback TCP Performance Throughput
    • Network Round-Trip Time using TCP/IP
    • Loopback Round-Trip Time using TCP/IP
    • TCP Connection Test
    • Summary
• Implementing Application-To-Application Priority with STREAMS
  • Goals and Contributions
    • Quality of Service (QoS) Approaches
    • STREAMS Priority Bands and Goals
  • Measurement Procedures and Testbed Configuration
    • Testbed
  • Experimental Results
    • Test For System Call Equivalence - HME
    • Test For System Call Equivalence - MHME
    • Test for MHME Latency Improvements Using Priority Bands
    • Multiple Client / Single Server Tests With Priority Bands
  • Summary
• Future Work
• Bibliography
• ABSTRACT
• APPENDIX - PUBLICATION NOTES
• AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT
• About this document ...