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Practical Experience With TCP Over GPRS

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Tags: gps, gprs, ip, time, software, network, applications, data

Overview This paper presents the results of a series of experiments used to characterize the performance of a GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) wireless data network, hence highlighting issues that software architects should consider when designing applications to run over this soon to be widely-deployed service. In summary, it shows that packet Round Trip Time (RTTs) are large (>1000ms) and can be highly variable, packet losses are relatively rare, and that available bandwidth can be quite variable. These network characteristics do not interact well with current TCP implementations.

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Publisher: University of Cambridge
File Format: PDF
Date Published: Mar 16, 2009
Format: White Papers

University of Cambridge White Papers

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