VMTP as the transport layer for high-performance distributed systems

The authors identify and discuss three major categories of deficiencies in current transport protocols: performance, naming, and functionality. They describe the design of the Versatile Message Transaction Protocol (VMTP) and some performance measurements of the protocol used in the V-Distributed System. They show that VMTP addresses all of the above issues within a single protocol without significant compromise.>

# Network Traffic and Congestion Control # Computer Science # Distributed systems and fault tolerance # Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems

David R. Cheriton, Carey L. Williamson (1989). "VMTP as the transport layer for high-performance distributed systems". IEEE Communications Magazine. https://doi.org/10.1109/35.29547