Subject: Re: UDP Lite?
To: Ali Khayam <ali_khayam@yahoo.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 10/27/2001 14:27:28
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 06:35:52PM -0700, Ali Khayam wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> First of all thanks for replying because I was
> starting to think that nobody would reply to this mail
> :)
> 
> "UDP Lite" is a variation of the traditional UDP
> protocol that has been tailored for high-error rate
> networks with low processing power nodes e.g. wireless
> networks. "UDP Lite" happens to be my area of research
> right now.
> 
> NetBSD's implementation of a "UDP Lite" prototype has
> been mentioned in two separate places:
> 
> 
>   (1) Larzon, L-?, Degermark, M., Pink, S., "UDP Lite
> for Real-Time Multimedia Applications" , Proc. IEEE
> International Conference of Communications, June 1999.
> (www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-IRI-1999-001.pdf)
> 
>   (2) UDP Lite Reading Group
> ("http://www.cdt.luth.se/~pelle/graduate/reading/udplite/udplite.shtml")
> 
> 
> The paper mentioned in (1) is by the pioneers of this
> protocol.
> 
> Please inform me whether this feature is still
> supported or not.

Well, I don't think it has ever been implemented in the main NetBSD stream;
this was done by third-party groups.
You should get in touch with the authors of these papers.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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