ARLP: An adaptive link layer protocol to improve TCP performance over wireless fading channels

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 655-668

  Lin, Haitao ^a   Das, Sajal K ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Arlington   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlated fading; Performance evaluation; Power consumption; RLP; Wireless link adaptation

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; FADING (RADIO); MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PACKET NETWORKS; QUALITY OF SERVICE;

FORWARD ERROR CORRECTION (FEC); MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL (MAC); RADIO LINK CONTROL (RLC); REED-SOLOMON (RS) CODE;

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 13244283129     PISSN: 15308669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wcm.235     Document Type: Article

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