title: International Internet-2 performance and automatic tuning protocol for medical imaging applications.
abstract: Internet-2 is an advanced computer network, which has been widely used for medical imaging applications such as teleradiology and teleconsultation, since Internet-2 can fulfill the requirements for high-speed data transmission and short turn-around time with low operation cost once installed. However, such high performance of Internet-2 may not be retained for global access from international network peers. Considering the international Internet-2 connection between the PolyU and the IPI/USC, there exist two major factors, network looping in the US and bottleneck of the connection, raising the round-trip time and limiting the available bandwidth, respectively. The available bandwidth will be further underutilized if the TCP/IP parameters at the sending and receiving computers are not appropriately chosen. This paper proposes a repeatable and consistent protocol to automatically tune these parameters for the clinical applications.
authors.affiliation: Department of Optometry and Radiography, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China. orlchan@polyu.edu.hk
authors.forename: Lawrence W C
authors.initials: LW
authors.lastname: Chan
authors.forename: Michael Z
authors.initials: MZ
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: S K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Hau
authors.forename: Maria Y Y
authors.initials: MY
authors.lastname: Law
authors.forename: F H
authors.initials: FH
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Documet
mesh_terms: D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D006723:Hong Kong; D020407:Internet; D015203:Reproducibility of Results