Novel results on SCTP multihoming performance in native IPv6 UMTS-WLAN environments

International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems

Volumn 5, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 25-45

  Bokor, László ^a   Huszák, Árpád ^a   Jeney, Gábor ^a  

^a BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Heterogeneous environment; IPv6; Multihoming; Performance evaluation; SCTP; Stream control transmission protocol; Testbed; Transport layer mobility; UMTS; Universal mobile telecommunications system; Vertical handover; Wireless local area network; WLAN

Indexed keywords

3G MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; COMPUTER NETWORK PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; TESTBEDS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

HETEROGENEOUS ENVIRONMENTS; IPV6; MULTI-HOMING; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; SCTP; STREAM CONTROL TRANSMISSION PROTOCOLS; TRANSPORT LAYERS; UNIVERSAL MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS; VERTICAL HANDOVERS; WLAN;

INTERNET PROTOCOLS;

EID: 84884572870     PISSN: 17543916     EISSN: 17543924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJCNDS.2010.033966     Document Type: Article

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