Linux Snoop is the implementation of the Snoop Protocol on the
Linux platform. The Snoop Protocol was designed to eliminate the
drop in TCP throughput due to intermittent packet loss on wireless
networks. It shields the sender from the vagaries of the wireless
link, without sacrificing the end-to-end semantics, or requiring
any changes to the existing implementations of TCP.
Snoop has currently been implemented as a kernel module. The module
uses specially defined hooks in the kernel and hence, the kernel
must be patched to implement these hooks. |
