Towards understanding TCP performance on LTE/EPC mobile networks

AllThingsCellular 2014 - Proceedings of the 4th ACM Workshop on All Things Cellular: Operations, Applications, and Challenges

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 41-46

  Nguyen, Binh ^a   Banerjee, Arijit ^a   Gopalakrishnan, Vijay ^b   Kasera, Sneha ^a   Lee, Seungjoon ^b   Shaikh, Aman ^b   Van Der Merwe, Jacobus ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

LTE EPC networks; mobile networking; TCP performance

Indexed keywords

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SMARTPHONES; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

BANDWIDTH REDUCTIONS; HANDOVER; LOSSLESS; MOBILE NETWORKING; SEAMLESS HANDOVER; SMART-PHONE APPLICATIONS; TCP PERFORMANCE; TRANSPORT LAYER PROTOCOLS;

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 84907416865     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2627585.2627594     Document Type: Conference Paper

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