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Passing Corrupt Data Across Network Layers: An Overview of Recent Developments and Issues

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Recent Internet developments seem to make a point for passing corrupt data from the link to the network layer and above instead of ensuring data integrity with a checksum and ARQ. We give an overview of these efforts (the UDP Lite and DCCP protocols) and explain which circumstances would justify delivery of erroneous data; clearly, the missing piece in the puzzle is efficient and meaningful interlayer communication.

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Welzl, M. Passing Corrupt Data Across Network Layers: An Overview of Recent Developments and Issues. EURASIP J. Adv. Signal Process. 2005, 235168 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1155/ASP.2005.242

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