Cameron Byrne wrote:
In the 3GPP case of GSM/UMTS/LTE, the wireless network will never drop the packet, by design.
According to the end to end argument, that's simply impossible, because intermediate equipments holding packets not confirmed by the next hop may corrupt the packets or suddenly goes down. > It will just delay the packet as it gets
resent through various checkpoints and goes through various rounds of FEC. The result is delay,
Even with moderate packet drop probability, it means *A LOT OF* delay or connection oriented communication, either of which makes 3GPP mostly unusable. Masataka Ohta