The Tsunami UDP Protocol is a
UDP-based protocol that was developed for high-speed file transfer over
network paths that have a high
bandwidth-delay product. Such protocols are needed because standard
TCP
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does not perform well over paths with high bandwidth-delay products. Tsunami was developed at the
Advanced Network Management Laboratory of
Indiana University. Tsunami effects a file transfer by chunking the file into numbered blocks of 32 kilobyte. Communication between the client and server applications flows over a low bandwidth TCP connection, and the bulk data is transferred over UDP.
References
External links
* {{SourceForge, tsunami-udp, Tsunami UDP Protocol
Internet protocols
Transport layer protocols
Computer networking