Research Article

Multiple paths protocol for a cluster type network

  1. Hiroshi Mineno1,*,
  2. Susumu Ishihara2,
  3. Ken Ohta3,
  4. Masahiro Aono4,
  5. Tetsuo Ideguchi5,
  6. Tadanori Mizuno2

Article first published online: 10 NOV 1999

DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1131(199909/12)12:5/6<391::AID-DAC418>3.0.CO;2-N

Issue

International Journal of Communication Systems

International Journal of Communication Systems

Special Issue: Telecommunication Systems for the New Millennium

Volume 12, Issue 5-6, pages 391–403, September - December 1999

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Mineno, H., Ishihara, S., Ohta, K., Aono, M., Ideguchi, T. and Mizuno, T. (1999), Multiple paths protocol for a cluster type network. International Journal of Communication Systems, 12: 391–403. doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1131(199909/12)12:5/6<391::AID-DAC418>3.0.CO;2-N

Author Information

  1. 1

    NTT Corp., 3-9-11 Midori-cho, Musashino, Tokyo 180-8585, Japan

  2. 2

    Faculty of Information, Shizuoka University, 3-5-1 Johoku, Hamamatsu 432-8011, Japan

  3. 3

    NTT Mobile Communications

  4. 4

    Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Shizuoka University, 3-5-1 Johoku, Hamamatsu 432-8011, Japan

  5. 5

    Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Aichi Prefectural University, Nagakute, Aichi 480-1198, Japan

*Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Shizuoka University, 3-5-1 Johoku, Hamamatsu 432-8011, Japan

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 10 NOV 1999
  2. Article first published online: 10 NOV 1999
  3. Manuscript Accepted: 30 MAY 1999
  4. Manuscript Received: 25 FEB 1999

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Keywords:

  • mobile computing;
  • cluster type network;
  • traffic dispersion;
  • sharing multiple paths

Abstract

Nowadays we can access the Internet by carrying a portable computer and using wireless communication. The wireless network with personal handy phone system (PHS) and portable cellular telephone has only rates of tens of Kbps to a few Mbps. Compared with the cable network, the transfer rate cannot generally satisfy a highly developed communication service such as large file transfer and real-time communications. This paper proposes a protocol, SHAKE, for sharing multiple paths in a cluster type network that is a kind of LAN in which some mobile hosts temporarily connect mutually. SHAKE provides the functions for composing a cluster type network, and dispersing traffic efficiently by measuring transfer rate and round-trip time. As a mobile host has only a low transfer capacity for individuals to communicate with the outside, if whole capacities of other hosts which compose a cluster type network are shared, we can get larger transfer capacity and satisfy the required communication services. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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