A Disconnection-Tolerant Transport for Drive-thru Internet Environments

Bibliographic Entry	Jörg Ott, Dirk Kutscher; A Disconnection-Tolerant Transport for Drive-thru Internet Environments; Proceedings of Infocom 2005, Miami; March 2005
Abstract	Today's mobile, wireless, and ad-hoc communications often exhibit extreme characteristics challenging assumptions underlying the traditional way of end-to-end communication protocol design in the Internet. One specific scenario is Internet access from moving vehicles on the road as we are researching in the Drive-thru Internet project. Using wireless LAN as a broadly available access technology leads to intermittent — largely unpredictable and usually short-lived — connectivity, yet providing high performance while available. To allow Internet applications to deal reasonably well with such intermittent connectivity patterns, we have introduced a supportive Drive-thru architecture. A key component is a "session" protocol offering persistent end-to-end communications even in the presence of interruptions. In this paper, we present the design of the Persistent Connectivity Management Protocol (PCMP) and report on findings from our implementation.
Resources	Paper: infocom-2005-ott-kutscher.pdf

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