To send or not to send: implementing deferred transmissions in a mobile host

Author

Badrinath, B.R. ; Sudame, Pradeep

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Rutgers Univ., NJ, USA

fYear

1996

fDate

27-30 May 1996

Firstpage

327

Lastpage

333

Abstract

As mobile hosts move, they encounter changing network characteristics. Characteristics such as bandwidth, reliability can change drastically when a mobile host moves from indoor to outdoor environment and vice versa. A mobile host can find itself in a lossy environment due to external conditions such as interference and fading. Existing end-to-end protocols are designed with an assumption that packet loss is a random and rare event. However due to mobility of hosts, there can be transient yet significant packet loss. In this paper we consider the effect of mobility on unreliable protocols such as UDP. We provide a mechanism by which unnecessary loss of packets can be avoided by allowing transmission only under “good” link conditions

Keywords

computer network reliability; data communication; internetworking; land mobile radio; transport protocols; UDP; bandwidth; changing network characteristics; deferred transmissions; end-to-end protocols; fading; interference; link conditions; lossy environment; mobile host; packet loss; reliability; unreliable protocols; Bandwidth; Computer science; Fading; Intelligent networks; Interference; Internetworking; Mobile communication; Propagation losses; Protocols; Radio broadcasting;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Distributed Computing Systems, 1996., Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7399-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDCS.1996.507931

Filename

507931