Transparent Peer to Peer TCP/IP over IrDA

Tourrilhes, Jean

HP Development Company

关键词: wireless;    radio;    MAC;    protocol;    802.11;   

RP-ID  :  HPL-2001-141

学科分类：计算机科学（综合）

美国|英语

来源: HP Labs

【 摘 要 】

This paper describes a novel approach to using TCP/IP applications over IrDA. First, we look into why so few applications are available over IrDA and what is necessary to make the use of those applications attractive to end-users. Then, we present a new scheme that enable the use of the IrDA communication layer by those applications in a transparent fashion with minimal overhead. We describe the various components necessary to implement such a scheme, IrNET, the name resolver and the discovery manager, and explain how we have implemented those components under Linux. We finish by showing a few examples of use of those components with real applications. 9 Pages