Uploaded November 2016 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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Wireless communications have very different characteristics than their wired equivalents. These differences have required the internet’s architecture to evolve, and introduced changes in the algorithms that run at each end of the wire.

Credits: Talking: Geoffrey Challen (Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo). Producing: Greg Bunyea (Undergraduate, Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo).

Part of the internet-class.org online internet course. A blue Systems Research Group (https://blue.cse.buffalo.edu) production.