WAP performance on an end-to-end scheme
C. Ladas, R.M. Edwards, G. Manson · UCL Discovery (University College London) · 2001
Dealing with the high bit error rates and narrow bandwidths that typify wireless communications was not within the design goals of the Internet protocols TCP and IP. The wireless application protocol (WAP) was introduced to make better use the wireless channel and was designed using a split-connection scheme where WAP is only used for the wireless interface. This paper shows and discusses the characteristics and performance attributes of the WAP protocol along with a comparison in performance with TCP on end-to-end connection schemes. Results obtained show that WAP can be more efficient than TCP/IP not only under noisy wireless conditions but also on wired connections as well.