As broadband Internet grows in popularity, it is important to determine if improvements can be made to broadband hardware and TCP. Motorola captured three hours of traffic from a cable network, which we analyzed to identify trends that may lead to optimizations in Motorola's hardware. We found that TCP-SACK provides a performance increase and recommend its further deployment. We also found that peer-to-peer applications account for a large portion of Internet traffic and suggest measures that may be taken to address this change.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• DeSantis, Todd Philip.
• Loose, David Thomas.

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 04C015M

Advisor

• Claypool, Mark L.
• Kinicki, Robert

Year

• 2004

Sponsor

• Motorola, Inc

Date created

• 2004-01-01

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Computer Science

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2021-10-11