Study of Techniques and Applications for Fast Data Transfers in HBDP Networks

This study presents a broad selection of methods and techniques for data transfers, starting with the TCP/IP protocol, its main enhancements, new non TCP protocols, and the class of applications and libraries able to sustain massive bulk transfers in HBDP networks. Distinctive features and comparison based on performance, effectiveness, efficiency and fairness are emphasized in each case. As a result, a new research direction has been identified, regarding generalization of the pipeline inter-process communication mechanism at networking level, by making fast interconnections between pairs of data producer/consumer processes distributed over the Internet.