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Advocating a Remote Socket Architecture for Internet Access Using Wireless LANs

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One challenge in the development of telecommunication networks is the seamless integration of wireless devices into the global Internet. Although it is well known that the Internet protocols were designed for heterogeneous networks an end-system with the usual Internet protocol stack will suffer an inefficient communication while connected via a wireless link. The protocol mechanisms of the transport layer can lead to poor performance in case of TCP and a high loss rate in case of UDP. In this paper we advocate a Remote Socket Architecture (ReSoA) which is a kind of proxy-oriented architecture for wireless Internet access in Wireless LAN environment. This approach allows the use of a thin protocol stack on the wireless end-system to save scarce resources and a tailored protocol for the wireless link without breaking the original TCP semantics. We show the suitability of ReSoA by comparing its performance with that of pure TCP and Berkeley Snoop through actual measurements in a test environment.

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    M. Schläger, B. Rathke, S. Bodenstein & A. Wolisz

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Schläger, M., Rathke, B., Bodenstein, S. et al. Advocating a Remote Socket Architecture for Internet Access Using Wireless LANs. Mobile Networks and Applications 6, 23–42 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009857619490

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