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Title : Modem Link Properties Advertisement Protocol
Author(s) : William Ivancic
Lloyd Wood
Rajiv Asati
Daniel Floreani
Dan Shell
Filename : draft-ivancic-manet-modemlpa-00.txt
Pages : 20
Date : 2012-11-05
Abstract:
Nework devices and applications are increasingly connected to a
variety of smart modems whose incoming and outgoing link rates can be
varied over time to suit the channel characteristics. Such rate
changes can result from use of adaptive coding and modulation. The
link rate and conditions offered by the modem to connected devices
therefore vary. In order for connected devices and applications to
get the most out of the modem's link capacity, it is necessary for
the applications and connected devices to condition traffic. Thus,
they need some knowledge of the modem's link conditions. This
document describes one simple method for a modem to advertise link
rate and other characteristics, via UDP messages, and discusses
alternative approaches to communicating this information. While the
mechanism in this document is described in the context of a modem, it
can also be broadly applied to other scenarios such as cryptographic
devices.
The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ivancic-manet-modemlpa
There's also a htmlized version available at:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ivancic-manet-modemlpa-00
Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at:
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/
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