Transport protocols for Internet-compatible satellite networks.

We address the question of how well end-to-end transport connections perform in a satellite environment composed of one or more satellites in geostationary orbit (GEO) or low-altitude Earth orbit (LEO), in which the connection may traverse a portion of the wired Internet. We first summarize the vari...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:	IEEE Journal on selected areas in communications 17, 2 (1999).
Main Author:	Henderson, T.R
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	GEO. Internet traffic traces. Internet-compatible satellite networks. LEO. TCP. Web cache. Asymmetry. Bandwidth. Congestion. Experiments. File transfer. Geostationary orbit. High error rates. Latency. Low-altitude Earth orbit. Network impairments. Performance. Proxy. Satellite gateway. Satellite transport protocol. Simulation. Split connection. Traffic models. Transmission control protocol.