Adaption layer enhancement : an investigation of support for independent link ARQ

The most commonly used transport protocol, TCP (Transport Control protocol) reacts to loss by throttling the transmission rate. This impacts performance if the loss is non-congestion related, corruption loss. A link layer protocol may use ARQ to provide reliability and shield TCP from corruption los...

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Main Author: Ang, Eng Soon
Published: University of Aberdeen 2003
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.288277