GOODNESS DEFINITION AND GOODNESS MEASURE FOR HIGH SPEED TRANSPORT PROTOCOLS FOR LIGHTWEIGHT NETWORKING APPLICATIONS

Recent advances in optical communications, VLSI, and fiber-optic technologieshave created new horizons for high-speed protocols and applicationsseeking end-to-end data transport at Gb/s speeds. In this Ph.D dissertation, anitemized goodness definition consisting of six criteria is presented for evaluationof high speed transport protocols used in lightweight networking applications.Based on this goodness definition, a goodness measure is also defined in thisdissertation to quantify the...