Title
Large MTUs and internet performance
Abstract
Ethernet data rates have increased many orders of magnitudes since standardisation in 1982. Despite these continual data rates increases, the 1500 byte Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) of Ethernet remains unchanged. Experiments with varying latencies, loss rates and transaction lengths are performed to investigate the potential benefits of Jumboframes on the Internet. This study reveals that large MTUs offer throughputs much larger than a simplistic overhead analysis might suggest. The reasons for these higher throughputs are explored and discussed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/HPSR.2012.6260832
High Performance Switching and Routing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Internet,computer network performance evaluation,local area networks,Ethernet data rates,Internet performance,jumboframes,large MTU,maximum transmission unit,overhead analysis,Experiment,Jumboframe,MTU,Performance,TCP
Byte,Telecommunications,Computer science,Computer network,Ethernet,Local area network,Maximum transmission unit,Database transaction,Path MTU Discovery,The Internet
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
Pending E-ISBN : 978-1-4577-0832-9
978-1-4577-0832-9
10
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.81
5
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
David Murray1216.54
Terry Koziniec2235.97
Kevin Lee334027.53
Michael Dixon4194.44