Transfer delay analysis of WAP 2.0 for short-lived flows

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1418-1426

  Rutagemwa, Humphrey ^a   Shen, Xuemin ^a   Mark, Jon W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Markov model; Performance analysis; Short lived flows; Wireless application protocol (WAP) 2.0; Wireless profiled (WP) transmission control protocol (TCP)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DATA TRANSFER; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PACKET LOSS;

MARKOV MODEL; TWO-STATE MARKOV CHAIN; WIRELESS APPLICATION PROTOCOL (WAP); WIRELESS LINK;

TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

EID: 34249684844     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2007.895469     Document Type: Article

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