Multiple paths protocol for a cluster type network

✍ Scribed by Hiroshi Mineno; Susumu Ishihara; Ken Ohta; Masahiro Aono; Tetsuo Ideguchi; Tadanori Mizuno

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 459 KB
• Volume: 12
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1074-5351
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1131(199909/12)12:5/6<391::aid-dac418>3.0.co;2-n

✦ Synopsis

Nowadays we can access the Internet by carrying a portable computer and using wireless communication. The wireless network with personal handy phone system (PHS) and portable cellular telephone has only rates of tens of Kbps to a few Mbps. Compared with the cable network, the transfer rate cannot generally satisfy a highly developed communication service such as large "le transfer and real-time communications. This paper proposes a protocol, SHAKE, for sharing multiple paths in a cluster type network that is a kind of LAN in which some mobile hosts temporarily connect mutually. SHAKE provides the functions for composing a cluster type network, and dispersing tra$c e$ciently by measuring transfer rate and round-trip time. As a mobile host has only a low transfer capacity for individuals to communicate with the outside, if whole capacities of other hosts which compose a cluster type network are shared, we can get larger transfer capacity and satisfy the required communication services.