A receiver-centric transport protocol for mobile hosts with heterogeneous wireless interfaces

Wireless Networks

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 363-382

  Kim, Kyu Han ^a   Zhu, Yujie ^a   Sivakumar, Raghupathy ^a   Hsieh, Hung Yun ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bandwidth aggregation; Heterogeneous wireless networks; Multi homed mobile host; Seamless handoff; Server migration

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); INTERFACES (COMPUTER); NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SERVERS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BANDWIDTH AGGREGATION; HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS NETWORKS; MULTI-HOMED MOBILE HOSTS; SEAMLESS HANDOFF; SERVER MIGRATION;

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 23044458637     PISSN: 10220038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11276-005-1763-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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