A Highly Flexibl High-Speed Transport Protocol: Functionality and Performance

With the advent of fiber optic transmission media, new network architectures, and switching systems, it is now feasible to supply users with access to bandwidth on the order of 1 Gigabit per second. Users are taking advantage of these new networks by developing applications that integrate their data needs with voice, video, imaging, etc. This thesis presents a new feature-rich transport protocol called the MultiStream Protocol (MSP).