… a linklayer that is transparent to TCP, has no knowledge of TCP’s state, takes advantage
of TCP’s generous timeouts, and makes efficient use of the bandwidth over the wireless link. …

… Since the bulk throughput performance of the stack during data … TCP and link layers, we
focus mainly on TCP and LL. The versions of TCP that are considered are TCP Tahoe and TCP …

… of research on TCP performance optimization is outlined. In … in the link-layer, where our novel
adaptation of the the link-layer ARQ … link, in order to enhance end-to-end TCP performance. …

… The protection against wireless channel losses is rendered by the link-layer by employing
… TCP dynamics aware link adaptation measures lead to substantial enhancement of TCP …

… This paper discusses a link layer approach to improving TCP … A “smart link layer” employing
repetition of selected packets … link layer” solution for the problem of TCP’s bad performance …

… a reliable link-layer protocol with some knowledge of TCP … performance degradation.
However, this is not the dominating effect when link layer schemes, such as LL, are used with TCP …

… TCP performance for two reasons: (i) competing retransmissions caused by an incompatible
setting of timers at the two layers, and (ii) the effect of the link layer protocol on the TCP fast …

… -layer algorithms. In this paper, a novel cross-layer approach (Link Layer CLAMP – TCP [L2CLAMP-TCP…
generic approach for performance enhancement of TCP over wireless networks. …

… link layer to hide losses over the wireless link to TCP in spite of the time varying transmission
quality. We focus on linklayer … We studied the performance of TCP when the last hop of the …

… However, the delay performance and throughput are not studied in depth. In fact, … link layers
work together to support TCP has not yet been investigated. Furthermore, the performance of …