Handoff is one of the most important factors that may degrade the performance of TCP connections in wireless data networks. The authors present a lossless handoff scheme called LPM (Last Packet Marking). LPM signals the safe handoff cue by sending a specially marked packet to mobile hosts. Our performance study shows that LPM achieves lossless packet delivery without duplication and increases TCP throughput significantly.

Authors: Kyeongah Kim, Jong Deok Kim, Jongkwon Kim and Jaeyoon Park

Journal: Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Publisher: Springer

DB: SCIE

Impact Factor: 0.402

Publish Date: 2004. 8. 17

DOI: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-540-25978-7_17