IMPROVING TCP PERFORMANCE OVER WIRELESS WANS USING TCP/IP-FRIENDLY LINK LAYER

Markku Kojo, Davide Astuti, Laila Daniel, Aki Nyrhinen, Kimmo Raatikainen

2004

Abstract

In this paper we propose the use of a TCP/IP-friendly link level error recovery mechanism with novel design in conjunction with state-of-the-art Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) enhancements to improve TCP performance on network paths involving Wireless Wide-Area Network (W-WAN) links. We show that by combining a selected set of TCP enhancements TCP performance is significantly improved over W-WAN links. In addition, we employ a TCP/IP-friendly link layer protocol which minimizes the additional delay due to the Automatic Repeat reQuests (ARQ) by limiting the number of retransmission attempts and by adding redundancy in the retransmitted frames in a novel way. We perform experiments in an emulated satellite environment with a real implementation of the TCP/IP-friendly link layer and TCP enhancements in Linux. The results show that both TCP enhancements and link-level ARQ significantly improve TCP performance over W-WAN links, and combining the approaches yields the best performance.

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Kojo M., Astuti D., Daniel L., Nyrhinen A. and Raatikainen K. (2004). IMPROVING TCP PERFORMANCE OVER WIRELESS WANS USING TCP/IP-FRIENDLY LINK LAYER . In Proceedings of the First International Conference on E-Business and Telecommunication Networks - Volume 1: TCPMAC, (ICETE 2004) ISBN 972-8865-15-5, pages 420-429. DOI: 10.5220/0001404504200429


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@conference{tcpmac04,
author={Markku Kojo and Davide Astuti and Laila Daniel and Aki Nyrhinen and Kimmo Raatikainen},
title={IMPROVING TCP PERFORMANCE OVER WIRELESS WANS USING TCP/IP-FRIENDLY LINK LAYER},
booktitle={Proceedings of the First International Conference on E-Business and Telecommunication Networks - Volume 1: TCPMAC, (ICETE 2004)},
year={2004},
pages={420-429},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001404504200429},
isbn={972-8865-15-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the First International Conference on E-Business and Telecommunication Networks - Volume 1: TCPMAC, (ICETE 2004)
TI - IMPROVING TCP PERFORMANCE OVER WIRELESS WANS USING TCP/IP-FRIENDLY LINK LAYER
SN - 972-8865-15-5
AU - Kojo M.
AU - Astuti D.
AU - Daniel L.
AU - Nyrhinen A.
AU - Raatikainen K.
PY - 2004
SP - 420
EP - 429
DO - 10.5220/0001404504200429