ADAPTIVE A Flexible and Adaptive Transport System Architecture to Support Lightweight Protocols for Multimedia Applications on High-Performance Networks

Transport systems integrate operating system services such as memory and process management together with communication protocols that utilize these OS services to support distributed applications running on local and wide area networks. Existing transport systems do not customize their services to meet the quality-of-service requirements of distributed applications. This often forces developers into the procrustean framework offered by transport systems and protocols that were designed before the advent of multimedia applications and high-performance networks. Flexible and adaptive transport systems, on the other hand, dynamically configure lightweight protocols that meet application requirements more precisely. This paper describes a high-performance transport system architecture called ADAPTIVE, “A Dynamically Assembled Protocol Transformation, Integration, and Validation Environment.” We are developing ADAPTIVE to support multimedia applications running on high-performance networks. ADAPTIVE is a transformational system that provides policies and mechanisms to automatically specify and synthesize a flexible, lightweight, and adaptive transport system configuration. In addition, it provides a controlled prototyping environment for monitoring, analyzing, and experimenting with the performance effects of alternative transport system designs and implementations.

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