This will do nothing for lossless networks, so I'm not sure this is really all that interesting. There is too much money being spent on infrastructure to tolerate lossy networks...
All networks can have packet loss, and the ones we use more and more (the wireless ones) certainly have a higher packet loss rate. Not sure what you are suggesting should be done?
Right, but 802.11 has built-in acknowledgments, preserving the illusion of a reliable network to higher layer protocols (TCP being the one where it matters here).
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This will do nothing for lossless networks, so I'm not sure this is really all that interesting. There is too much money being spent on infrastructure to tolerate lossy networks...
I think WiFi routers and cellular base stations are pretty important to the world's network infrastructure these days...
All networks can have packet loss, and the ones we use more and more (the wireless ones) certainly have a higher packet loss rate. Not sure what you are suggesting should be done?
Right, but 802.11 has built-in acknowledgments, preserving the illusion of a reliable network to higher layer protocols (TCP being the one where it matters here).
The IP infrastructure is a lossy network. It's a reasonably big network...