The design philosophy of the DARPA internet protocols
SIGCOMM '88 Symposium proceedings on Communications architectures and protocols
Congestion avoidance and control
SIGCOMM '88 Symposium proceedings on Communications architectures and protocols
Low-loss TCP/IP header compression for wireless networks
MobiCom '96 Proceedings of the 2nd annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
A model, analysis, and protocol framework for soft state-based communication
Proceedings of the conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
A robust header compression technique for wireless Ad hoc networks
ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review
FLIP: a flexible interconnection protocol for heterogeneous internetworking
Mobile Networks and Applications
Energy aware lossless data compression
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Mobile systems, applications and services
Energy-aware lossless data compression
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Host mobility using an internet indirection infrastructure
Wireless Networks
Host Mobility Using an Internet Indirection Infrastructure
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Mobile systems, applications and services
XIA: efficient support for evolvable internetworking
NSDI'12 Proceedings of the 9th USENIX conference on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
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Compressing protocol headers has traditionally been an attractive way of conserving bandwidth over low-speed links, including those in wireless systems. However, despite the growth in recent years in the number of end-to-end protocols beyond TCP/IP, header compression deployment for those protocols has not kept pace. This is in large part due to complexities in implementation, which often requires a detailed knowledge of kernel internals, and a lack of a common way of pursuing the general problem across a variety of end-to-end protocols. To address this, rather than defining several new protocol-specific standards, we present a unified framework for header compression. This framework includes a simple, platform-independent header description language that protocol implementors can use to describe high-level header properties, and a platform-specific code generation tool that produces kernel source code automatically from this header specification. Together, the high-level description language and code generator free protocol designers from having to understand any details of the target platform, enabling them to implement header compression with relatively little effort. We analyze the performance of compression produced using this framework for TCP/IP in the Linux 2.0 kernel and demonstrate that unified, automatically-generated header compression without significant performance penalty is viable.