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Performance of Transport Protocols in Wireless Networks
Overview The increasing popularity of wireless networks indicates that wireless links will play an important role in future inter-networks. Transport protocol as an essential part of the whole protocol hierarchy provides end-to-end communication between two or more communication hosts. In theory, transport protocol should be independent of the technology of the underlying network layer. However, in practice, TCP, as a standard transport protocol for Internet, is tuned for wired network and performs poorly in wireless networks. This paper provides a survey of research on transport protocols for wireless networks. This paper first summarizes the proposals that enhance TCP performance in wireless networks and then provide a classification of transport protocols in ad-hoc networks.
| Publisher | Washington State University | File Format | |
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| Date Published | August 2006 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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