3. Conclusion

The standardization effort within the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) has resulted in the new standard for header compression, ROHC , being the subject of an IETF consensus which integrates the best of the various proposals to provide a robust mechanism capable of adapting to the different characteristics of communications networks. Its main advantage is its ability to support high error rates and delays.

While the initial focus was on UDP, as this protocol is the carrier of multimedia streams, work is underway to improve the efficiency of TCP stream compression. Current approaches focus on compression...