kStack - A User Space ATM Transport Layer with QOS Support

Windows NT kStack Now available (July 8, 1997).

kStack is a user space implementation of the transport layer for a native-mode ATM protocol stack. It has QOS support for monitoring and adaptation at the application level and performs QOS monitoring per connection. kStack uses multi-threading for scheduling between transport tasks and applications.

kStack was originally based on the transport layer of the Native-Mode ATM Stack. Though similar in spirit to the original, it was substantially modified in three ways: it is implemented in user space, it is enhanced with a QOS aware transport layer interface and an end-to-end QOS monitoring module was added.

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• User space transport layer with QOS support.
• Per connection QOS monitoring.
• CFTP, a multi-threaded FTP application illustrating how to use the stack.
• Transport protocol compatible with the Native-Mode ATM Stack.
• Operational since September 1995. Heavily tested on Solaris.
• Demonstrated at IEEE Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-5), Aug. 1996 in Syracuse, NY as part of the xbind demo.
• Technical report documenting the user space implementation and explaining main differences with the Native-Mode ATM Stack.
• UNIX Multi-threading based on POSIX thread standard (pthreads) and Windows NT threads for Windows NT/95 OS. PThreads libraries are provided on Solaris 2.5, HP-UX 10, IRIX 6.1, AIX 4.1 and in user space on many other paltforms: r2000 running ultrix, HP-UX 9.0x, IRIX 5.3, Linux, FreeBSD, etc. Solaris thread are also supported.

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