Modeling TCP SACK performance over wireless channels with completely reliable ARQ/FEC

International Journal of Communication Systems

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1533-1564

  Dunaytsev, Roman ^a   Moltchanov, Dmitri ^a   Koucheryavy, Yevgeni ^a   Harju, Jarmo ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

ARQ; FEC; TCP; wireless

Indexed keywords

ARQ; AUTOMATIC-REPEAT-REQUEST SCHEMES; BACK-BONE NETWORK; BUFFER OVERFLOWS; CROSS-LAYER; DEVELOPED MODEL; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; FEC; FORWARD ERROR CORRECTION CODING; IP PACKETS; JOINT EFFECT; NONSTATIONARY; ROUND-TRIP TIME; SERVICE PROCESS; SPURIOUS TIMEOUT; TCP; TCP PERFORMANCE; TCP SACK; WIRELESS CHANNEL; WIRELESS CHANNEL CONDITION;

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ERROR CORRECTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RADIO;

TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

EID: 82255162488     PISSN: 10745351     EISSN: 10991131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dac.1230     Document Type: Article

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