TCP-DCR: A Novel Protocol for Tolerating Wireless Channel Errors

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 517-529

  Bhandarkar, Sumitha ^a   Sadry, Nauzad Erach ^b   Reddy, A L Narasimha ^a   Vaidya, Nitin H ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Z Force Incorporated   (United States)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

channel errors; delayed congestion response; local recovery; TCP; Wireless network

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008008422     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2005.72     Document Type: Article

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