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Hari Balakrishnan, Srinivasan Seshan, and Randy H. Katz

One-line summary: Soft-state in BS's (the snoop agent) are used to perform local retransmissions across a wireless link to avoid end-to-end congestion control and retransmissions; IP-multicast is used to allow secondary BS's to cache packets destined to a MH in case that MH hands off to one of the secondary BS's.

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Relevance

This method solves the wireless TCP problems, and does so without changing TCP semantics, inducing significant processing overhead, or requiring recompilation of clients or modifications of FH's TCP stacks.

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