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Multiple paths protocol for a cluster type network
Author(s) -
Mineno Hiroshi,
Ishihara Susumu,
Ohta Ken,
Aono Masahiro,
Ideguchi Tetsuo,
Mizuno Tadanori
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
international journal of communication systems
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.344
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1099-1131
pISSN - 1074-5351
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-1131(199909/12)12:5/6<391::aid-dac418>3.0.co;2-n
Subject(s) - computer science , computer network , file transfer , transfer (computing) , protocol (science) , mobile phone , wireless , wireless network , telecommunications , operating system , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology
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 file 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 traffic efficiently 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. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.