Literature Survey: Architecture, Features, and Implementation of High Speed Transport Protocols

As computer communication advances further into the era of lightwave networks, more strain is placed on data communication components. One component receiving much recent attention is the transport layer (fourth layer of the OSI model) of communication protocols. There has been significant debate as to whether current transport protocols (eg. TCP or ISO TP4) can adequately handle the burden placed upon them by newly developing and futuristic high-speed networks.