David Wibowo

Title:
TCP in mobile network

Major goal:
Although TCP is the most common protocol over the Internet, regular TCP in 
itself is not 
suitable for wireless networking. In this paper, we will see why regular 
TCP is not 
suitable in wireless environments and steps needed to satisfy the standard 
mobile TCP 
protocol.

Scope:
- Introduction to TCP in wireless environment.
- The nature of wireless network.
- Why regular TCP is not suitable for wireless environments
- Overview and examples of 3 protocol categories to improve the 
performance TCP connection
   - Link Layer
   - End to end
   - Split connection

Reference:
1. Jochen Schiller, Mobile Communications, Pearson Education, 2003. 

2. Elaarag, Hala, Improving TCP performance over mobile networks, ACM  
Computing Surveys (CSUR), v.34 n.3, p.357-374, September 2002. 

3. Haris Balakrishnan , Randy H. Katz , Venkata N. Padmanbhan, The effects 
of asymmetry on TCP performance, Mobile Networks and Applications, v.4 
n.3, p.219-241, Oct  1999. 

4. Hari Balakrishnan , Venkata N. Padmanabhan , Srinivasan Seshan , Randy 
H. Katz, A comparison of mechanisms for improving TCP performance over 
wireless links, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), v.5 n.6, 
p.756-769, Dec. 1997. 

5. Hari Balakrishnan , Venkata N. Padmanabhan , Srinivasan Seshan , Randy 
H. Katz, A comparison of mechanisms for improving TCP performance over 
wireless links, Conference proceedings on Applications, technologies, 
architectures, and protocols for computer communications, p.256-269,  
August 28-30, 1996, Palo Alto, California, United States.