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A Bayesian Approach for TCP to Distinguish Congestion From Wireless Losses

Overview The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) has been the protocol of choice for many Internet applications requiring reliable connections. The design of TCP has been challenged by the extension of connections over wireless links. This paper investigate a Bayesian approach to infer at the source host the reason of a packet loss, whether congestion or wireless transmission error. The approach is "Mostly" end-to-end since it requires only one long-term average quantity (namely, long-term average packet loss probability over the wireless segment) that may be best obtained with help from the network (e.g. wireless access agent).

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Publisher	Boston University	File Format	PDF
Date Published	June 2004
Format	White Papers
Topics	Bandwidth Issues, TCP - IP, Mobile - Wireless Communications

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