TCP over 2.5G and 3G wireless networks
Dongmei Zhang, Runtong Zhang, Zhigang Kan, Renaud Cuny, Jussi P. O. Ruutu, Jian Ma · 2002
Transmission control protocol (TCP) by IETF is one of the most widely used transport layer protocols in Internet. Much development and deployment activity has centered around GPRS, UMTS and IMT-2000, also referred to 2.5G/3G wireless networks. However, TCP has not been designed bearing in mind wireless networks. Especially, flow control features can perform less than optimally over wireless interfaces. A number of TCP optimization techniques have been studied to enhance the TCP performance for various wireless environments. This paper proposes a profile of such techniques, particularly effective for to 2.5G/3G wireless networks.