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Wireless communication is increasingly wide-spread, also including data communications. Therefore, future networking environments may be hybrid, i.e., consisting of both wireless and fixed networks. However, currently used communication protocols may not be well-suited for communication across such hybrid networks. In this paper, acknowledgment and retransmission policies of various protocols as well as round trip time estimations over hybrid networks are investigated. The concept of the mobile hub is introduced in order to subdivide the communication path in mobile subpaths and fixed subpaths. The simulation experiments (including an 802.11 wireless LAN) showed considerable performance increase due to the introduction of the mobile hub.
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Zitterbart, M., Fieger, A. (1996). End-to-End Communication Across Hybrid Networks. In: Effelsberg, W., Spaniol, O., Danthine, A., Ferrari, D. (eds) High-Speed Networking for Multimedia Applications. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1339-7_1
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