Emerging Internet Protocols A and B

Term Paper Outline

Joe Miner

CPE 6510 Term Paper – Prof. Egemen K. Çetinkaya

19 March 2015

Abstract

Protocol H was developed for the ARPANET and has been the only available content delivery protocol for the last couple of decades. However, protocol H has been unable to keep up with the growth of the Internet with respect to scalability and for high-speed applications. Research has produced a number of new mechanisms to improve content caching and distribution. Protocols A and B are emerging as the leading competitors to provide future Internet connectivity. This paper compares the strengths and weaknesses of A and B in the context of their evolution from the widely deployed protocol H. Protocol A rules due to its superior performance and scalability. Protocol B sucks, but is backed by powerful economic interests.

1. Introduction and Motivation

2. Background

2.1. Early Content Delivery Mechanisms

2.2. The Development and Deployment of Protocol H

2.3. Limitations of Protocol H

2.3.1. Scalability

2.3.2. High Data Rate Applications

3. Content Delivery Mechanisms

3.1 Caching

3.2 Distribution

4. Emerging Proposals for Content Delivery

4.1. Initial Proposals

4.2. Proposed Protocol A

4.2.1. Protocol A Operations

4.2.2. Protocol A Deployment Scenarios

4.3. Proposed Protocol B

4.3.1. Protocol B Operations

4.3.2. Protocol B Deployment Scenarios

4.4. Performance Comparison of A vs. B.

4.5. Market and Economic Considerations

5. Summary and Conclusions

References

[Doe 2007] Jane Doe and John Doe, Protocol A Specification, IETF Internet Draft (work in progress), Feb. 2007, www.ietf.org/draft-prota-spec-05.txt.

[Estrada 1997] Franco Estrada, et al., Protocol H Content Delivery, Internet RFC 7000 (standard), May 1987.

[Smith 2007] Susan Smith and John Jones, “Emerging Protocol Options for the Internet”, IEEE Internet Protocols, vol. 2 no. 3, Mar. 2007, pp. 7 – 15.

[Ramanathan 2007] S. Ramanathan, An Architectural Framework for Protocol H Evolution, Internet RFC 9999 (informational), IETF, Feb. 2007.

[Tanaka 2006] Akira Tanaka and Georg Müller “A Survey of Proposed Enhancements to Protocol H”, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Protocol Enhancements (ProtEnh 2006), Bangalore, June 2006, pp. 205–215.

[Monopolies 2006] Protocol B: The Future of Content Delivery, industry white paper, www.monopolies-r-us.example.com/protb/White%20Paper.asp.

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