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Chapter 6 Wireless and Mobile Networks - Network and Systems Lab

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<strong>Wireless</strong>, mobility: impact on higher layer protocols<br />

logically, impact should be minimal …<br />

best effort service model remains unchanged<br />

TCP <strong>and</strong> UDP can (<strong>and</strong> do) run over wireless, mobile<br />

… but performance-wise:<br />

packet loss/delay due to bit-errors (discarded<br />

packets, delays for link-layer retransmissions), <strong>and</strong><br />

h<strong>and</strong>off<br />

TCP interprets loss as congestion, will decrease<br />

congestion window un-necessarily<br />

delay impairments for real-time traffic<br />

limited b<strong>and</strong>width of wireless links<br />

6: <strong>Wireless</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Mobile</strong> <strong><strong>Network</strong>s</strong> 6-69

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