Enhancing wireless internet performance

Author

Hu, Fei ; Sharma, Neeraj K.

Author_Institution

Rochester Inst. of Technol., Rochester, NY, USA

Volume

4

Issue

1

fYear

2002

Firstpage

2

Lastpage

15

Abstract

This article surveys wireless Internet technologies whose goals are to enhance networking performance. These technologies are organized into seven categories: power saving, mobile performance, Multimedia Quality-of-Service, application performance, transport-layer characteristics, data-link layer, and non-TCP options. For each category, the main technical characteristics are outlined, the architectural aspects are discussed, and the advantages and disadvantages are analyzed. The objective of this article is to contribute to the overall understanding of the technologies available for constructing the forthcoming wireless Internet infrastructure.

Keywords

Internet; computer network performance evaluation; computer network reliability; radio networks; application performance; data-link layer; mobile performance; multimedia quality-of-service; networking performance; nonTCP options; power saving; transport-layer characteristics; wireless Internet; Bandwidth; Convergence; Forward error correction; IP networks; Internet; Physical layer; Quality of service; Transport protocols; Wireless LAN; Wireless application protocol;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Surveys & Tutorials, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1553-877X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/COMST.2002.5341331

Filename

5341331