Research Paper 

Name : Sandhya Lekshmi Sumathy
Course : CS898T
Lecturer : Dr.Chang

Topic

Efficient Internet Traffic Delivery over Wireless Networks

1. Major Goals

a) Discuss some of the most recent and popular wireless link layer
techniques.
b) Discuss the behaviour of higher level protocols to optimize
performance.
c) Discuss how to tame the behaviour of TCP so as not to compromise the
performance of lower layers


2. Scope

         The high demand for wireless Internet connectivity has driven
the development of highly efficient radio link technologies. However
their preformance can be compromised by interactions with the
higher-layer TCP flow control protocol.Maximising the performance
of wireless links requires the mechanisms operating at every level of
protocol stack interact efficiently. This paper studies some of the radio link
enhancements. It also outlines how higher-layer flow control protocols shouls behave and provides techniques for taming the behaviour of TCP, to ensure that the performance of lower-layer enhancements is not compromised.


4. References

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[3] 3GPP, "Quality of Service(QoS) Concept and Archgitecture," Technical
Standard 3G TS 23, 107 v5.9.0 #G Partnership project , July 2003. 

[4] G.Fairhurst and L.Wood, "Advice to link Designers on Link Automatic
Repeat Request(ARQ) IETF RFC 3366, 2002