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Improving End-to-End Performance of TCP Over mobile Internetworks

Raj Yavatkar and Namrata Bhagawat, U. of Kentucky

One-line summary: Split the TCP connection by giving the client a (new, custom) session-layer protocol on top of TCP, but accessed using the TCP API (sockets etc).

Overview/Main Points

Relevance

Differs from I-TCP primarily in that I-TCP addresses mobility but not the inherent problems of wireless links.

Flaws


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