We discuss the design principles of TCP within the context of heterogeneous wired/wireless networks and mobile networking. We identify three shortcomings in TCP's behavior: (...
IEEE 802.11, the standard of wireless local area networks (WLANs), allows the coexistence of asynchronous and time-bounded traffic using the distributed coordination function (DCF)...
— Previous results show that a node’s throughput scales poorly as the network size increases when every node has traffic. However, in many cases, only a fraction of nodes in l...
:- The wide availability of mobile devices equipped with wireless communication capabilities together with the technical possibility to form ad hoc networks paves the way for build...
This paper describes an agent-based architecture that extends personal mobility to ubiquitous environment. A software agent, running on a portable device, leverages the existing se...