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M-TCP: TCP for mobile cellular networks

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ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review archive
Volume 27 , Issue 5 (October 1997) table of contents

Pages: 19 - 43

Year of Publication: 1997

ISSN:0146-4833

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Kevin Brown	Department of Computer Science, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
Suresh Singh	Department of Computer Science, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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Transport connections set up over wireless links are frequently plagued by problems such as - high bit error rate (BER), frequent disconnections of the mobile user, and low wireless bandwidth that may change dynamically. In this paper, we study the effects of frequent disconnections and low variable bandwidth on TCP throughput and propose a protocol that addresses this problem. We discuss the implementation (in NetBSD) of our protocol called M-TCP and compare its performance against other mobile TCP implementations. We show that M-TCP has two significant advantages over other solutions: (1) it maintains end-to-end TCP semantics and, (2) it delivers excellent performance for environments where the mobile encounters periods of disconnection.

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