M-TCP
The M-TCP protocol runs between the gateway MING
and the mobile. The MING acks segments only when they are ack'ed by the
mobile. However, we ensure that MING does not ack the last byte. The reason
is that when MING senses that the mobile is in a fade, it acks the last
byte to the sender and simultaneously shrinks its receive window to zero.
When the mobile comes out of the fade, the MING sends a duplicate ack but
opens the receive window all the way. This ensures that the sender does
not invoke congestion control because the mobile was in a fade. You can
see an animation of the protocol or download
the paper.
