Improving TCP/IP Performance over Third-Generation Wireless Networks

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 430-443

  Chan, Mun Choon ^a,b   Ramjee, Ram ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b School of Computing   (Singapore)

^c MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

3G network; Delay and rate variation; Long and short flows; TCP

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); OPTIMIZATION; ROUTERS; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

CHANNEL VARIATIONS; DROP-TAIL POLICY; WIRELESS CHANNEL;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 39749168364     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2007.70737     Document Type: Article

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