Unified transport layer support for data striping and host mobility

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 737-746

  Goff, Tom ^a   Phatak, Dhananjay S ^a  

^a University of Marylandw Baltimore County   (United States)

Author keywords

Data striping; End to end; Inverse multiplexing; Mobility; Network protocols; Stream control transmission protocol (SCTP); Transmission control protocol (TCP); Transport layer; Wireless networking

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DATA REDUCTION; DATA TRANSFER; INTERNET; OPTIMIZATION; USER INTERFACES;

DATA STRIPING; END TO END; INVERSE MULTIPLEXING; STREAM CONTROL TRANSMISSION PROTOCOLS (SCTP); TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOLS; TRANSPORT LAYERS; WIRELESS NETWORKING;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 2542456594     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2004.826001     Document Type: Article

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