Communications in Digital Battlefield: Fundamental Problems in the Design of Hetrogeneous Networks

Abstract

The research for this grant is on fundamental problems in the design of heterogeneous networks, including high level wireless link modeling, resource negotiation, and end-to-end transport. TCP, the de facto standard for Interment data transport protocol, is not robust to lossy wireless links. However, it has been shown that it is possible to support TCP by hiding the wireless loss from it using link layer error recovery. Also, alternatives transport protocol have been investigated, which solve the congestion control and error recovery problems of TCP. Quality of Service (QoS) for real time data have also been investigated. Choice of forward error control (FEC) and adaptation to the channel have been shown to improve the QoS provided. Also, a generalized round robin scheduler has been shown to provide the same QoS at lower complexity. Note: the PI has moved from University of Illinois to University of California Santa Barbara, where he is continuing his work under a new grant.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADA385689

Entities

People

  • Upamanyu Madhow

Organizations

  • University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • California
  • Computer Communications
  • Computer Networks
  • Congestion
  • Heterogeneous Networks
  • Illinois
  • Internet
  • Networks
  • Recovery
  • Standards
  • Students
  • Transport Protocols
  • Transport Ships
  • Universities
  • Wireless Communications

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Networking