Homa - IP Protocol
This page provides IP protocol information on the Homa IP protocol (Homa) detected by the Netify DPI engine. Please see the IP protocol catalog for information on other IP protocols.
Homa is a research transport protocol from Stanford designed for very low latency and high throughput in datacenter networks, replacing TCP for that use case. Linux has a native handler for this IP protocol.
IP Protocol Details
- Name
- Homa
- Abbreviation
- Homa
- Status
- Active
- IANA Number
- 146
- IANA Keyword
- Homa
- Reference
- Homa
IP Protocol Status - Active
Homa was developed at Stanford and published as an open-source Linux module in the early 2020s, and is an actively developed, emerging datacenter transport protocol.
IP Protocol Network Policy
Homa is an emerging low-latency datacenter transport protocol replacing TCP for some workloads, and is relevant only within datacenters that have explicitly deployed Homa.