Performance evaluation of Westwood+ TCP over WLANs with local error control

Proceedings - Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 440-448

  Grieco, L A ^a   Mascolo, S ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bandwidth; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Electronic mail; Error correction; Radio control; Radio link; Throughput; Wireless application protocol; Wireless LAN

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONIC MAIL; ERROR CORRECTION; ERRORS; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; RADIO LINKS; THROUGHPUT; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN); WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; END-TO-END CONGESTION CONTROL; END-TO-END PERFORMANCE; HIGHER-LEVEL PROTOCOLS; NET WORK UTILIZATION; RADIO CONTROL; WIRELESS APPLICATION PROTOCOLS; WIRELESS LAN CHANNEL;

TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

EID: 67650779997     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/LCN.2003.1243170     Document Type: Conference Paper

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