ACKNOWLEDGMENT The authors would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their useful remarks. This work has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 644334 (NEAT). The views expressed are solely those of the authors.Peer reviewedPostprin

Bozakov, Zdravko

Brunstrom, Anna

Fairhurst, Gorry

Grinnemo,  Karl-Johan

Hayes, David

Hurtig, Per

Jones, Tom

Khademi, Naeem

Mangiante, Simone

Ros, David

Tüxen, Michael

Weinrank, Felix

Welzl, Michael

The sockets API has become the standard way that applications access the transport services offered by the IP stack. This article presents NEAT, a user space library that can provide an alternate transport API. NEAT allows applications to request the service they need using a new design that is agnostic to the specific choice of transport protocol underneath. This not only allows applications to take advantage of common protocol machinery, but also eases introduction of new network mechanisms and transport protocols. The article describes the components of the NEAT library and illustrates the important benefits that can be gained from this new approach. NEAT is a software platform for developing advanced network applications that was designed in accordance with the standardization efforts on transport services in the IETF, but its features exceed the envisioned functionality of a TAPS system.
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NEAT: A Platform- and Protocol-Independent Internet Transport API

Naeem Khademi

David Ros

Michael Welzl

Zdravko Bozakov

Anna Brunstrom

Gorry Fairhurst

Karl-Johan Grinnemo

David Hayes

Per Hurtig

Tom Jones

Simone Mangiante

Michael Tuxen

Felix Weinrank

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT The authors would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their useful remarks. This work has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 644334 (NEAT). The views expressed are solely those of the authors.Peer reviewe

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NEAT : A Platform- And Protocol-Independent Internet Transport API

The sockets Applications Programming Interface (API) has become the standard way that applications access the transport services offered by the Internet Protocol stack. This paper presents NEAT, a user-space library that can provide an alternate transport API. NEAT allows applications to request the service they need using a new design that is agnostic to the specific choice of transport protocol underneath. This not only allows applications to take advantage of common protocol machinery, but also eases introduction of new network mechanisms and transport protocols. The paper describes the components of the NEAT library and illustrates the important benefits that can be gained from this new approach. NEAT is a software platform for developing advanced network applications that was designed in accordance with the standardization efforts on Transport Services (TAPS) in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), but its features exceed the envisioned functionality of a TAPS system. </p

Khademi, Naeem,

Ros, David,

Welzl, Michael,

Bozakov, Zdravko,

Brunström, Anna,

Fairhurst, Gorry,

Grinnemo, Karl-Johan,

Hayes, David,

Hurtig, Per,

Jones, Tom,

Mangiante, Simone,

Tüxen, Michael,

Weinrank, Felix,

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