A transport layer approach for achieving aggregate bandwidths on multi-homed mobile hosts

Wireless Networks

Volumn 11, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 99-114

  Hsieh, Hung Yun ^a   Sivakumar, Raghupathy ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Head of line blocking; Inverse multiplexing; Multi homed mobile host; Parallel sockets; Striping

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONNECTORS; MULTIPLEXING; SATELLITES; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; WIDE AREA NETWORKS;

HEAD-OF-LINE BLOCKING; INVERSE MULTIPLEXING; MULTI-HOMED MOBILE HOST; PARALLEL SOCKETS; STRIPING;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 17444402884     PISSN: 10220038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11276-004-4749-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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