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ATP: A Reliable Transport Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks
November/December 2005 (vol. 4 no. 6)
pp. 588-603
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Karthikeyan Sundaresan, Vaidyanathan Anantharaman, Hung-Yun Hsieh, Raghupathy Sivakumar, "ATP: A Reliable Transport Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 4, no. 6, pp. 588-603, November/December, 2005.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/TMC.2005.81,
author = {Karthikeyan Sundaresan and Vaidyanathan Anantharaman and Hung-Yun Hsieh and Raghupathy Sivakumar},
title = {ATP: A Reliable Transport Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks},
journal ={IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing},
volume = {4},
number = {6},
issn = {1536-1233},
year = {2005},
pages = {588-603},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TMC.2005.81},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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TY - JOUR
JO - IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
TI - ATP: A Reliable Transport Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks
IS - 6
SN - 1536-1233
SP588
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EPD - 588-603
A1 - Karthikeyan Sundaresan,
A1 - Vaidyanathan Anantharaman,
A1 - Hung-Yun Hsieh,
A1 - Raghupathy Sivakumar,
PY - 2005
KW - Index Terms- Ad hoc networks
KW - transport layer
KW - reliability
KW - rate adaptation.
VL - 4
JA - IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
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Existing works have approached the problem of reliable transport in ad hoc networks by proposing mechanisms to improve TCP's performance over such networks. In this paper, we show through detailed arguments and simulations that several of the design elements in TCP are fundamentally inappropriate for the unique characteristics of ad hoc networks. Given that ad hoc networks are typically stand-alone, we approach the problem of reliable transport from the perspective that it is justifiable to develop an entirely new transport protocol that is not a variant of TCP. Toward this end, we present a new reliable transport layer protocol for ad hoc networks called ATP (ad hoc transport protocol). We show through ns2-based simulations that ATP outperforms default TCP as well as TCP--ELFN and ATCP.

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Index Terms:
Index Terms- Ad hoc networks, transport layer, reliability, rate adaptation.
Citation:
Karthikeyan Sundaresan, Vaidyanathan Anantharaman, Hung-Yun Hsieh, Raghupathy Sivakumar, "ATP: A Reliable Transport Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 4, no. 6, pp. 588-603, Nov.-Dec. 2005, doi:10.1109/TMC.2005.81
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