Re: [tcpm] Separate header checksums and WiFi

[Joe Touch <[e-mail]>]

Very nice. Congrats!

Joe

Michael Welzl wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> [ Answering an email from January 2007 (my, my, how time flies  :-(  ),
> and including ICCRG because I recently mentioned this study there,
> so it might be of interest to them too ]
> 
> We finally did that:
> 
> Michael Welzl, Mattia Rossi, Andrea Fumagalli, Marco Tacca, "TCP/IP over
> IEEE 802.11b WLAN: the Challenge of Harnessing Known-Corrupt Data",
> accepted for publication, IEEE ICC 2008 (International Conference on
> Communications), 19-23 May 2008, Beijing, China.
> 
> Available from
> http://www.welzl.at/research/projects/corruption/index.html
> (until somebody tells me that I misread the legal bits and
> am not allowed to do so)
> 
> Cheers,
> Michael
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 09:14 -0800, Joe Touch wrote:
>> Beyond what Ethan is suggesting, this is useful to write up more fully
>> and publish, e.g., at Globecom or ICC. Negative results, as Ethan notes,
>> are critical to the community as a whole.
>>
>> Joe
>>
>> Ethan Blanton wrote:
>>> Michael Welzl spake unto us the following wisdom:
>>>> I figured that the only convincing way to prove him
>>>> wrong is to actually do a real-life test. I did, and
>>>> proved him right  :)  that is, disabling checksums for
>>>> parts of packets doesn't yield much of a benefit in
>>>> WiFi networks, where it seems that frames are delivered
>>>> in an all-or-nothing fashion.
>>> I have to applaud this move.  All too often we only talk about the
>>> things we did that *worked*, and the same questions about things that
>>> any number of people would tell you doesn't work come up over and
>>> over.  For this particular topic, there is now a citation, so the next
>>> guy won't have to go try it himself.  Thank you.
>>>
>>> Ethan
>>>
>>>
>>>
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