Improving TCP Performance over Mobile Networks

ACM Computing Surveys

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 357-374

  Elaarag, Hala ^a  

^a STETSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Base station; Comparison of TCP implementations; End to end; I TCP; Link layer; M TCP; Mobile host; Mobile TCP; Mobile wireless networks; Mobility; MTCP; New Reno; Reno; SACK; Snoop; Split TCP; Standard TCP; TCP performance; WAP; Wired networks; Wireless TCP; WTCP

Indexed keywords

BASE STATIONS; MOBILE HOST;

BIT ERROR RATE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PACKET NETWORKS; PROBLEM SOLVING; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 0038387105     PISSN: 03600300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/568522.568524     Document Type: Review

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