Routing and Transport Layer Protocols for Wireless Networks
Prasun Kumar Sinha · 2001
The desire to be untethered and yet be connected has resulted in the popularity of an array of wireless enabled devices such as PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants), palm-tops, web-enabled cell-phones and laptops. Two complementary technologies have evolved for interconnecting these devices, namely, the cellular data networks, which connects these devices to the Internet using a base station network, and the ad hoc networks, which connects these devices to other such devices through a multi-hop wireless network without using base stations. Various properties of these networks, such as mobility, frequent disconnections and varying channel conditions have made it a challenging task to design networking protocols for these technologies. In this thesis we focus on the design of routing and transport layers for providing mechanisms for fast data delivery that avoids creating congestion in the network.