NEAT: A Platform- And Protocol-Independent Internet Transport API

Naeem Khademi; David Ros; Michael  Welzl; Zdravko Bozakov; Anna Brunstrom; Gorry Fairhurst; Karl-Johan  Grinnemo; David Hayes; Per Hurtig; Tom  Jones; Simone Mangiante; Michael  Tüxen; Felix  Weinrank

doi:10.1109/MCOM.2017.1601052

NEAT: A Platform- And Protocol-Independent Internet Transport API

Naeem Khademi, David Ros, Michael Welzl, Zdravko Bozakov, Anna Brunstrom, Gorry Fairhurst, Karl-Johan Grinnemo, David Hayes, Per Hurtig, Tom Jones, Simone Mangiante, Michael Tüxen, Felix Weinrank

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For more than three decades, the Internet’s transport layer has essentially supported just two protocols: TCP, for applications that need reliable in-sequence delivery; UDP, for applications that assume nothing but port numbers and a checksum. Applications have been built using these protocols, and other transport protocols have even been layered over these. UDP has become a substrate upon which user-space transport protocols are being developed—with most of these customized for speciﬁc applications, as with the recent QUIC protocol from Google. In these cases, much effort is expended re-implementing many common transport functions. This paper proposes an alternative approach to realize a new transport API that allows applications to request the service they need, but is agnostic to the speciﬁc choice of transport protocol underneath. This not only allows applications to take advantages of common protocol machinery, it also eases introduction of new network mechanisms and transport protocols. We present NEAT, a user-space library that achieves this goal, and then illustrate important beneﬁts that can be gained from this approach. NEAT was designed in accordance with the standardization efforts on Transport Services (TAPS) in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), but its features exceed the envisioned functionality of a TAPS system.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	46-54
Number of pages	9
Journal	IEEE Communications Magazine
Volume	55
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MCOM.2017.1601052
Publication status	Published - 12 Jun 2017

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The authors would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their useful remarks.
This work has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 644334 (NEAT). The views expressed are solely those of the authors.

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