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Authors: | Simon Heimlicher, Rainer Baumann, Martin May, Bernhard Plattner |
Group: | Communication Systems |
Type: | Inproceedings |
Title: | The Transport Layer Revisited |
Year: | 2007 |
Month: | January |
Pub-Key: | heimlicher2007 |
Book Titel: | IEEE COMSWARE 2007 |
Keywords: | transport layer, protocol, mobile, ad hoc, wireless |
Publisher: | IEEE |
Abstract: | End-to-end transport protocols such as TCP perform poorly in mobile environments, primarily due to their inability to cope with the dynamics incurred by node mobility. We re-consider the design decisions that lead to the end-to-end design of the transport layer. To this end, we present a framework for reliable hop-by-hop transport protocols. Based on this framework, we design and evaluate such a protocol and compare its performance to TCP. Overall, the hop-by-hop protocol achieves up to 3 times faster delivery of messages in mobile networks. We conclude that hop-by-hop protocols are suited well to provide reliable communication in mobile networks. |
Location: | Bangalore, India |
Resources: | [BibTeX] [Paper as PDF] |