An experimental evaluation of SCPS-TP over lossy GEO-space links

GLOBECOM - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Wang, Ruhai ^a   Horan, Stephen ^c   Kota, Sastri ^d   Sun, Bo ^b  

^a Lamar University   (United States)

^b Lamar University   (United States)

^c New Mexico State Univ   (United States)

^d Centers for Disease Control and Prevention   (United States)

Author keywords

Congestion control; SCPS; Space Internet; TCP; Transport protocols

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRIC CHANNEL; LOSSY LINK; SPACE INTERNET;

CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); ERROR ANALYSIS; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; STANDARDS; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS;

TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

EID: 50949116602     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2006.848     Document Type: Conference Paper

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