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Support of Elastic TCP Traffic Over Broadband Geostationary Satellite Networks
Overview This paper investigates mechanisms available at the satellite network for the provision of service differentiation to TCP flows. It demonstrates that fundamental satellite access network capabilities provide enough flexibility for the provision of qualitative service differentiation for TCP flows over these networks without necessitating per-flow state at the MAC layer and/or the computational overhead of prediction methods that are not straightforward for TCP traffic. Moreover, the split-TCP mechanism, despite the security-related and reliability-related concerns it raises, provides the network operator with significant additional flexibility in the treatment of TCP traffic. The mechanism forms a transport-layer differentiation mechanism that, when combined with lower-layer capabilities, can give rise to separate bearer services over the satellite network.
| Publisher | University of Surrey | File Format | |
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| Date Published | April 2004 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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