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Yes, I do recognize that.

In the big picture, however, it's generally better to fix the part of a system that's broken (the PHY) than it is to try to compensate for the underlying problem in upper layers.

It's also good to be careful about your terms. "Mobile" means operation out of a car or other motorized moving platform. "Portable" means a device that's being carried by a pedestrian. When the bandwidth of a radio channel gets wide, these become very different environments.

All I can say about new protocols is that you can go to your local Uni and find (quite literally) a ton of conference proceedings on this very topic. It seems that somebody has been funding a ludicrous amount of research on TCP replacements for decades without anything practical coming out of it.

Out of all that literature you ought to be able to find something that works or find a good reason why it can't be done.



Mobile also means "As in it's carried around as well as used in cars". It's a term for smartphone. They're using modern parlance to talk about smartphones, not radio parlance.




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