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A unified header compression framework for low-bandwidth links

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A unified header compression framework for low-bandwidth links
Compressing protocol headers has traditionally been an attractive way of conserving bandwidth over low-speed links, including those in wireless systems. However, despite the growth in recent years in the number of end-to-end protocols beyond TCP/IP, header compression deployment for these protocols has not kept pace. This is in large part due to complexities in implementation, which often requires a detailed knowledge of kernel internals, and a lack of a common way of pursuing the general problem across a variety of end-to-end protocols. To address this, rather than defining several new protocol-specific standards, we present a unified framework for header compression. This framework includes a simple, platform-independent header description language that protocol implementors can use to describe high-level header properties, and a platform-specific code generation tool that produces kernel source code automatically from this header specification. Together, the high-level description ...
Jeremy Lilley, Jason Yang, Hari Balakrishnan, Srin
Added 25 Aug 2010
Updated 25 Aug 2010
Type Conference
Year 2000
Where MOBICOM
Authors Jeremy Lilley, Jason Yang, Hari Balakrishnan, Srinivasan Seshan
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