A comparison of mechanisms for improving TCP performance over wireless links

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 756-769

  Balakrishnan, Hari ^a,b   Padmanabhan, Venkata N ^a,b   Seshan, Srinivasan ^c   Katz, Randy H ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer networks; Internetworking; Link layer protocals; TCP; Wireless networks

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; PACKET NETWORKS; RADIO LINKS; WIDE AREA NETWORKS;

INTERNETWORKING; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOLS (TCP);

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 0031333421     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/90.650137     Document Type: Review

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