ATP: application controlled transport protocol for mobile ad hoc networks

Author

Liu, Jian ; Singh, Suresh

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR, USA

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

1318

Abstract

In this paper we present a discussion of the design and implementation of a new transport protocol specifically developed for mobile ad hoc networks. The protocol allows applications complete control in deciding the level of reliability and the quality of service (QoS) desired for different portions of a data stream. Unlike TCP, however, ATP is a lightweight protocol and unlike UDP, it provides feedback to the application regarding the status of the connection(s). We have implemented ATP in the FreeBSD kernel (a version of Unix) and tested its performance. We show that the design of ATP provides the right balance between network transparency and application flexibility

Keywords

Unix; data communication; feedback; mobile communication; mobile computing; quality of service; telecommunication network reliability; transport protocols; ATP; FreeBSD kernel; QoS; Unix; application controlled transport protocol; application flexibility; connection status; data stream; design; feedback; lightweight protocol; mobile ad hoc networks; network transparency; performance; quality of service; reliability; Ad hoc networks; Application software; Biomedical imaging; Design engineering; Feedback; Fires; Mobile computing; Quality of service; Reliability engineering; Transport protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 1999. WCNC. 1999 IEEE

Conference_Location

New Orleans, LA

ISSN

1525-3511

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5668-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCNC.1999.796951

Filename

796951