%0 Journal Article
%T Disconnection protocol support in mobile access
%A Sadok
%A Djamel H.
%A Kelner
%A Judith
%A Cordeiro
%A Carlos de Morais
%J Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society
%D 1999
%I Springer
%R 10.1590/S0104-65001999000100006
%X mobile access remains limited by relatively short battery power lifetime, expensive wireless bandwidth and areas with difficult or no continuous communication coverage. it is believed that as many as 70% of laptop users would operate in planned or non planned disconnected mode. although existing approaches have led to implementing disconnected mode operation within applications, we chose to introduce changes to a mobile extension of the internet transport protocol. we show through simulation that this protocol performs better than tcp. in order to evaluate disconnection parameters including disconnection and inter-disconnection times, a performance study of disconnection is presented. finally we argue that disconnection is an important service and should therefore be considered as a quality of service (qos) parameter to be negotiated among mobile and fixed communication entities.
%K mobile computing
%K communication protocols
%K planned disconnection.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0104-65001999000100006&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en