CONTENTS

Policy on Intellectual Property Right (IPR)
 1     Scope
 2     Reference models
        2.1     Point-to-point links
        2.2     VSAT networks
                  2.2.1     Star topology
                  2.2.2     Mesh topology
        2.3     Broadband access
 1     Scope
 2     TCP performance with splitting enhancement
        2.1     Single TCP connection performance tested without any improvement
                  2.1.1     Single TCP connection performance testing
                  2.1.2     TCP without performance enhancement
                  2.1.3     Performance of single TCP connection without performance enhancement
        2.2     Two-segment splitting
                  2.2.1     Configuration of satellite networks
                  2.2.2     Tests results
                  2.2.3     Summary
        2.3     Three-segment splitting
                  2.3.1     Configuration of satellite networks
                  2.3.2     Test procedures
                  2.3.3     Test results
                  2.3.4     Summary
 3     Tests and measurements of TCP over satellite using caching and spoofing
        3.1     Introduction
        3.2     Tests and measurements
                  3.2.1     Equipment specifications
                  3.2.2     Network configurations for tests and measurements
                  3.2.3     Test and measurement results
        3.3     Summary
 4     TCP performance over a satellite ATM network
        4.1     Network configuration
        4.2     TCP performance in ATM-based satellite-only network
        4.3     TCP behaviours in heterogeneous networks including satellite link
                  4.3.1     Simulation of buffer size
                  4.3.2     TCP performance with traffic control in TCP sender
        4.4     Summary
 5     TCP performance in satellite access networks
        5.1     Network architecture and configuration
                  5.1.1     Network architecture
                  5.1.2     Configuration
        5.2     Results of performance measurement
                  5.2.1     Availability
                  5.2.2     Throughput
                  5.2.3     Traffic
        5.3     Summary
 6     Application protocol measurements (FTP and HTTP)
        6.1     Satellite ATM network configuration
        6.2     FTP throughput over OC‑3 satellite link
        6.3     HTTP throughput over OC‑3 satellite link
                  6.3.1     HTTP 1.0 with non-persistent connections
                  6.3.2     HTTP 1.0 with “keep-alive” option
                  6.3.3     HTTP 1.1 without pipelining
                  6.3.4     HTTP 1.1 with pipelining
                  6.3.5     Test results
        6.4     Summary
 7     Conclusions