Re: Wireless Application Protocol

From: Thomas Sailer (jetwzn@svc.itscom.jp)
Date: Mon Apr 03 2000 - 11:24:53 EEST

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    Matti Aarnio wrote:

    > What especially GPRS needs is a proxy in between GPRS side, and
    > the general internet, which hides the weird variance of packet
    > transport delays in the GPRS mode from the general internet,
    > thus improving TCP troughput.

    Thereby breaking the end-to-end ack promise of TCP... not good either.

    What works for us quite well is "queue pruning" on the wired net
    to wireless router, i.e. dropping retransmitted frames if the original
    is still in the transmit queue.

    Tom



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