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ADHOC
2005
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15 years 4 months ago
Infrastructure-based MAC in wireless mobile ad-hoc networks
- The IEEE 802.11 standard is the most popular Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol for wireless local area networks. However, in an ad-hoc environment, the Point Coordination Func...
Hossam S. Hassanein, Tiantong You, Hussein T. Mouf...
MOBISYS
2003
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
System Services for Ad-Hoc Routing: Architecture, Implementation and Experiences
This work explores several system issues regarding the design and implementation of routing protocols for ad-hoc wireless networks. We examine the routing architecture in current ...
Vikas Kawadia, Yongguang Zhang, Binita Gupta
SIGCOMM
1996
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
A Comparison of Mechanisms for Improving TCP Performance over Wireless Links
Reliable transport protocols such as TCP are tuned to perform well in traditional networks where packet losses occur mostly because of congestion. However, networks with wireless ...
Hari Balakrishnan, Venkata N. Padmanabhan, Sriniva...
CCR
2008
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15 years 4 months ago
Removing exponential backoff from TCP
The well-accepted wisdom is that TCP's exponential backoff mechanism, introduced by Jacobson 20 years ago, is essential for preserving the stability of the Internet. In this ...
Amit Mondal, Aleksandar Kuzmanovic
ICNP
2003
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
Improving TCP Startup Performance Using Active Measurements: Algorithm and Evaluation
TCP Slow Start exponentially increases the congestion window size to detect the proper congestion window for a network path. This often results in significant packet loss, while ...
Ningning Hu, Peter Steenkiste