Measurements on the feasibility of TCP NAT traversal in cellular networks

4th EURO-NGI Conference on Next Generation Internet Networks - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 261-267

  Mäkinen, Lauri ^a   Nurminen, Jukka K ^a,b  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Measurements; Mobile internet; NAT traversal; TCP

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR NETWORKS; MEASUREMENTS; MOBILE INTERNET; NAT TRAVERSAL; TCP;

CELLULAR NEURAL NETWORKS; CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SYSTEM FIREWALLS; GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; INTERNET; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 51349085120     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NGI.2008.42     Document Type: Conference Paper

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