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"Achieving high data rates using TCP/IP over satellite networks can be difficult" - review and discuss.
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Coursework 1 Question 1 a). "Achieving high data rates using TCP/IP over satellite networks can be difficult"- review and discuss some of the reasons TCP/IP has difficulty with satellite links, including the following issues: IP Throughput, IP Time To Live, IP Fragmentation, TCP Throughput and Throughput Expectations, TCP Sequence Numbers, TCP Transmission Window, Slow Start, and Congestion Avoidance. Achieving high data rates using Transmission Control Protocol & Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) over satellite networks can be difficult because satellite links have a high latency, which causes the reduction of the performance of some protocols like TCP/IP that are commonly used. The main reason to this problem is the design of TCP/IP. They were not designed to be applied in wireless environment, they were actually meant to be used in fixed networks only that are end-to-end and based on reliability and connection orientation. For example, the Internet, which is the biggest...
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