On-demand TCP: transparent peer to peer TCP/IP over IrDA

Author

Tourrilhes, Jean ; Magalhaes, Luiz ; Carter, Casey

Author_Institution

Hewlett-Packard Co., Palo Alto, CA, USA

Volume

5

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

3250

Abstract

This paper describes a novel approach to using TCP/IP applications over IrDA (Infrared Data Association) and Bluetooth. First, we look into why so few applications are available over IrDA and what is necessary to make the use of those applications attractive to end-users. Then, we present a new scheme that enables the use of the IrDA communication layer by those applications in a transparent fashion with minimal overhead. We describe the various components necessary to implement such a scheme, IrNET, the name resolver and the discovery manager, and explain how we have implemented those components under Linux. We finish by showing a few examples of use of those components with real applications.

Keywords

mobile computing; operating systems (computers); optical communication; optical links; telecommunication computing; transport protocols; Bluetooth; Infrared Data Association; IrDA; Linux; TCP/IP applications; ad-hoc networks; communication layer; on-demand TCP; portable computing devices; Ad hoc networks; Bluetooth; Computer networks; Linux; Portable computers; Routing; Space technology; TCPIP; Ubiquitous computing; Uniform resource locators;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 2002. ICC 2002. IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7400-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.2002.997435

Filename

997435