TCP performance enhancements in wireless and mobile networks

We provide a whole concept on the current structure of the trends of the mechanisms towards wireless and mobile networks by analyzing and comparing the existing solutions of TCP, its lower layer protocols and upper layer protocols. We propose our classification of these schemes of the TCP and underlying protocols into two basic groups: hand-off proposals and wireless proposals and discover that the combination of best wireless scheme and best handoff method can provide very good performance. For the complexities of the coordination between the layers of the stack, we expect that all the problems of handoffs, wireless and application adaptation can be solved efficiently at the TCP layer, so developing new mechanisms at the TCP layer such as our F-TCP mechanism and integrating them with existing schemes is necessary