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Legacy congestion control protocols such as TCP and its variants are known to perform inefficiently over cellular networks due to highly variable channel capacities over short time scales and unpredictable changes in channel latency [WB11, WSB+13]. These channel properties lead to two considerable shortcomings of legacy congestion control protocols: First, packet loss is not linked to congestion in the network or access link. Due to the nature of cellular channels, (e.g., hand-over, changing channel capacities, etc.) packets may be discarded at any point in time without experiencing an actual congestion in the network.
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Pötsch, T. (2016). Motivation. In: Future Mobile Transport Protocols. Advanced Studies Mobile Research Center Bremen. Springer Vieweg, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-14815-7_2
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