Admission Control Policies for Internet File Transfer Protocols

Dartmouth Technical Report PCS-TR97-315

	Simon Holmes a Court

Date: May 1997

URL (compressed postscript): <http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR97-315.ps.Z> (608KB)

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Abstract:
 	Server congestion is a major cause of frustration with the
 Internet. It is not uncommon for a server with a new release of
 popular software to be swamped by many times more clients than it can
 possibly handle. Current Internet file transfer protocols, namely FTP
 and HTTP, do not have any policy to regulate client admission.
 	In this thesis we are concerned with server admission policies
 that will improve clients' experience with servers under heavy
 load. Using a purpose-built network simulator, we compare the
 prevalent protocols with two new protocols that include policies taken
 from processor scheduling.  
 	By applying more intelligent client admission policies it is
 hoped that the quality of service on the Internet can be improved.

Note:
 Senior Honors Thesis.  Advisor: John M. Danskin.