Improving TCP performance over wireless networks at the link layer

Mobile Networks and Applications

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 57-71

  Parsa, Christina ^a,b   Garcia Luna Aceves, J J ^a,c,d,e,f  

^a University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD IBEROAMERICANA   (Mexico)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^e SUN MICROSYSTEMS   (United States)

^f SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; RADIO LINKS; RADIO STATIONS; RADIO TRANSMISSION; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CHANNEL DELAY; PROPAGATION DELAY; TRANSPORT CONTROL PROTOCOL; TRANSPORT UNAWARE LINK IMPROVEMENT PROTOCOL; WIRELESS NETWORK;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 0033734254     PISSN: 1383469X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1019131822786     Document Type: Article

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