Performance evaluation of robust header compression protocol for low data rate networks

2013

Masteroppgave i informasjons- og kommunikasjonsteknologi IKT590 2013 – Universitetet i Agder, Grimstad Mobile Ad hoc networks (MANETs) have limited capacity due to properties of the physical medium for tactical operations. Several traffic types are typical for tactical applications, i.e. transmit frequent short IP packets (e.g., VoIP and friendly force tracking message). The RTP, TCP/UDP and IP headers comprise a significant overhead for these traffic types. Therefore, robust header compression (ROHC) protocol can useful to save the bandwidth for such applications. This thesis work is divided into two tasks. First one is the technological background of the robust header compression (ROHC) p…