HIPPARCH is now an ESPRIT Basic project investigating High Performance Protocol Architectures using Integrated Layer Processing (ILP) and Application Layer Framing (ALF) principles.
The official project web pages contain a lot more information, including deliverables. and extension til mid 99
Members of the project are guest editors for a JSAC Issue on High Performance Protocol Architectures
There was a fourth workshop of the HIPPARCH projects scheduled for June 15/16 1998
Draft Slides for the Final Review Meeting
You too can read the Year one PPR
We will add publications and deliverables to this page as they become available:
There is a paper on work in progress on scalable reliable bulk multicast protocol. Other work is progressing on analysis of the time to choose multicast and when to use a tree of TCP connections to distribute information to a set of mirror sites, or to a set of synchronised media (near-)on-demand clients.