Improving the Performance of Reliable Transport Protocols in Mobile Computing Environments

@article{citeulike:2866447, abstract = {We explore the performance of reliable data communication in mobile computing environments. Motion across wireless cell boundaries causes increased delays and packet losses while the network learns how to route data to a host's new location. Reliable transport protocols like TCP interpret these delays and losses as signs of network congestion. They consequently throttle their transmissions, further degrading performance. We quantify this degradation through measurements of protocol behavior in...}, author = {Caceres, Ramon and Iftode, Liviu }, citeulike-article-id = {2866447}, journal = {IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications}, number = {5}, pages = {850--857}, posted-at = {2008-06-05 17:53:01}, priority = {2}, title = {Improving the Performance of Reliable Transport Protocols in Mobile Computing Environments}, url = {http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/caceres95improving.html}, volume = {13}, year = {1995} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2866447 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2866447 N2 - We explore the performance of reliable data communication in mobile computing environments. Motion across wireless cell boundaries causes increased delays and packet losses while the network learns how to route data to a host's new location. Reliable transport protocols like TCP interpret these delays and losses as signs of network congestion. They consequently throttle their transmissions, further degrading performance. We quantify this degradation through measurements of protocol behavior in... IS - 5 JF - IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications EP - 857 TI - Improving the Performance of Reliable Transport Protocols in Mobile Computing Environments VL - 13 SP - 850 AU - Caceres, Ramon AU - Iftode, Liviu PY - 1995/// UR - http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/caceres95improving.html ER -