Modeling and improving TCP performance over cellular link with variable bandwidth

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1057-1070

  Ren, Fengyuan ^a   Lin, Chuang ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

HSDPA networks; link rate variation; TCP performance; variable structure control

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CONTROL THEORY; QUEUEING THEORY; VARIABLE STRUCTURE CONTROL;

HIGH SPEED DOWNLINK PACKET ACCESS TECHNOLOGIES; HSDPA NETWORKS; LINK ADAPTATION TECHNIQUES; PACKET DATA TRAFFIC; RATE VARIATION; ROBUST SLIDING MODE; TCP PERFORMANCE; VARIABLE BANDWIDTHS;

TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

EID: 85027958865     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2010.234     Document Type: Article

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