Wireless & Mobile Networks

A topic within Computer Networks, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Computer Science.

Reading on Wireless & Mobile Networks

2 works

Paper1997

A Comparison of Mechanisms for Improving TCP Performance over Wireless Links

Hari Balakrishnan, Venkata N. Padmanabhan, Srinivasan Seshan & Randy H. Katz

Shows TCP mistakes wireless packet loss for congestion and needlessly throttles the connection, then compares link-layer fixes that hide the wireless link's unreliability from TCP entirely.

link checked 17 Sept 2026

Computer Science · Computer Networks

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Book2005

Wireless Communications

Andrea Goldsmith

Treats the wireless channel's fading and interference as the central constraint that every layer above the physical layer has to be designed around.