Performance of TCP extensions on noisy high BDP networks

Experiments on high bandwidth delay product (BDP) networks assist in the de sign and understanding of future global networks. This paper describes the results of experiments with different implementations of TCP on a high spee d ATM/SONET network over high delay and noisy channels, Comparisons are als o made with host/traffic configurations over various smaller BDP systems, E xperimental comparisons of three different implementations of TCP; TCP Reno , TCP New Reno, and TCP SACK as a function of bit error rates (BER) and rou nd-trip times (RTT) are presented.