Performance Enhancement of TCP Over Wireless Network

Performance Enhancement of TCP Over Wireless Network

Author: Md. Shah Jahan Rahman

Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13: 9783659352584

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TCP is the widely used transport protocol across the internet but it was originally designed for wired networks. In wireless networks, TCP encounters serious problems due to the physical properties of the wireless medium. The proposed model has implemented by TCP-LPA (Loss Piece ACK) for wireless network and its performance has compared with that of TCP-DBA (Demand Base ACK). In this thesis, it may be concentrated on two main strategies for enabling the TCP congestion control mechanism to determine the cause for a packet loss. The main objective of our proposed proxy based mechanisms is to explicitly inform the TCP source of any effects caused by wireless links while maintaining the end-to-end design philosophy. However, the implementation technique is network dependent. Finally, it may be developed an analytical TCP throughput model with enhanced TCP-DBA fast retransmit algorithm to avoid timeouts. The model captures the TCP fast retransmit mechanism and expresses the steady state congestion window and throughput as a function of network utilization factor, RTT and loss rate.


Techniques for End-to-end TCP Performance Enhancement Over Wireless Networks

Techniques for End-to-end TCP Performance Enhancement Over Wireless Networks

Author: Bong Ho Kim

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13:

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Today’s wireless network complexity and the new applications from various user devices call for an in-depth understanding of the mutual performance impact of networks and applications. It includes understanding of the application traffic and network layer protocols to enable end-to-end application performance enhancements over wireless networks. Although Transport Control Protocol (TCP) behavior over wireless networks is well known, it remains as one of the main drivers which may significantly impact the user experience through application performance as well as the network resource utilization, since more than 90% of the internet traffic uses TCP in both wireless and wire-line networks. In this dissertation, we employ application traffic measurement and packet analysis over a commercial Long Term Evolution (LTE) network combined with an in-depth LTE protocol simulation to identify three critical problems that may negatively affect the application performance and wireless network resource utilization: (i) impact of the wireless MAC protocol on the TCP throughput performance, (ii) impact of applications on network resource utilization, and (iii) impact of TCP on throughput performance over wireless networks. We further propose four novel mechanisms to improve the end-to-end application and wireless system performance: (i) an enhanced LTE uplink resource allocation mechanism to reduce network delay and help prevent a TCP timeout, (ii) a new TCP snooping mechanism, which according to our experiments, can save about 20% of system resources by preventing unnecessary video packet transmission through the air interface, and (iii) two Split-TCP protocols: an Enhanced Split-TCP (ES-TCP) and an Advanced Split-TCP (AS-TCP), which significantly improve the application throughput without breaking the end-to-end TCP semantics. Experimental results show that the proposed ES-TCP and AS-TCP protocols can boost the TCP throughput by more than 60% in average, when exercised over a 4G LTE network. Furthermore, the TCP throughput performance improvement may be even superior to 200%, depending on network and usage conditions. We expect that these proposed Split-TCP protocol enhancements, together with the new uplink resource allocation enhancement and the new TCP snooping mechanism may provide even greater performance gains when more advanced radio technologies, such as 5G, are deployed. Thanks to their superior resource utilization efficiency, such advanced radio technologies will put to greater use the techniques and protocol enhancements disclosed through this dissertation.


Enhancing TCP Congestion Control for Improved Performance in Wireless Networks

Enhancing TCP Congestion Control for Improved Performance in Wireless Networks

Author: Breeson Francis

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages:

ISBN-13:

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Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) designed to deliver seamless and reliable end-to-end data transfer across unreliable networks works impeccably well in wired environment. In fact, TCP carries the around 90% of Internet traffic, so performance of Internet is largely based on the performance of TCP. However, end-to-end throughput in TCP degrades notably when operated in wireless networks. In wireless networks, due to high bit error rate and changing level of congestion, retransmission timeouts for packets lost in transmission is unavoidable. TCP misinterprets these random packet losses, due to the unpredictable nature of wireless environment, and the subsequent packet reordering as congestion and invokes congestion control by triggering fast retransmission and fast recovery, leading to underutilization of the network resources and affecting TCP performance critically. This thesis reviews existing approaches, details two proposed systems for better handling in networks with random loss and delay. Evaluation of the proposed systems is conducted using OPNET simulator by comparing against standard TCP variants and with varying number of hops.


TCP Performance Study and Enhancements Within Wireless Multi-hop Ad Hoc Network Environments

TCP Performance Study and Enhancements Within Wireless Multi-hop Ad Hoc Network Environments

Author: Alaa Seddik

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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Wireless ad hoc networks are different from wired networks by the multitude of data packet loss situations they are subjected to. This is due to the characteristics of wireless channel that might obstruct the proper reception of data packet at the destination end. In some case, these vulnerabilities of wireless channel can result in a complete link failure. Although link failure is of low probability in wired networks, it is rather common in wireless networks. The volatility of communication channel is a typical problem with wireless links, which is not the case with wired cables. TCP is a transport protocol that aims at ensuring high reliability and guarantying reception of data packets. However, TCP was designed for wired networks to address congestion, which is the main cause for data packet loss in wired networks. Therefore, other types of data packet loss encountered in wireless networks are prone to misinterpretation by TCP, which will lead to TCP performance degradation within the network. To overcome the performance limitation of TCP when used within ad hoc networks, the aim of this thesis is twofold. First, a complete performance study of TCP over ad hoc networks is achieved. This evaluation concerns two performance metrics: the achievable throughput and the energy consumption of TCP within ad hoc networks. This study allows identifying the potential room of improvement to enhance TCP efficiency in ad hoc networks. Second, we propose a new TCP variant, TCP-WELCOME that optimizes the performance of TCP in ad hoc networks through its ability to distinguish among, and efficiently deal with, different data packet loss situations, within ad hoc networks.


Computational Science And Its Applications - Iccsa 2005

Computational Science And Its Applications - Iccsa 2005

Author: Osvaldo Gervasi

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2005-04-27

Total Pages: 1297

ISBN-13: 3540258604

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The four-volume set LNCS 3480-3483 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2005, held in Singapore in May 2005. The four volumes present a total of 540 papers selected from around 2700 submissions. The papers span the whole range of computational science, comprising advanced applications in virtually all sciences making use of computational techniques as well as foundations, techniques, and methodologies from computer science and mathematics, such as high performance computing and communication, networking, optimization, information systems and technologies, scientific visualization, graphics, image processing, data analysis, simulation and modelling, software systems, algorithms, security, multimedia etc.


TCP Performance over UMTS-HSDPA Systems

TCP Performance over UMTS-HSDPA Systems

Author: Mohamad Assaad

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2006-07-20

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1420013327

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The evolution of the mobile communication market is causing a major increase in data traffic demands. This could lead to disrupted mobility and intermittent degraded channel conditions that contribute to poor transmission control protocol (TCP) performance. TCP Performance over UMTS-HSDPA Systems presents a comprehensive study of the effect of TCP


Improvement of TCP Performance in Wireless Networks

Improvement of TCP Performance in Wireless Networks

Author: Wan Gang Zeng

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) was designed and optimized to work well over wired networks. It suffers significant performance degradation in wireless networks due to their different characteristics, such as high Bit-Error Rate (BER), large and variable delay and bursty traffic. In this thesis, I propose packet control algorithms to be deployed in intermediate network routers. They improve TCP performance in wireless networks with packet delay variations and long sudden packet delays. The ns-2 simulation results show that the proposed algorithms reduce the adverse effect of spurious fast retransmits and timeouts and greatly improve the goodput compared to the performance of TCP Reno. The TCP goodput was improved by 3̃0% in wireless networks with 1% packet loss. TCP performance was also improved in cases of long sudden delays. These improvements highly depend on the wireless link characteristics.


Computational Intelligence and Information Technology

Computational Intelligence and Information Technology

Author: Vinu Das

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-01-02

Total Pages: 900

ISBN-13: 364225733X

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This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Information Technology, CIIT 2011, held in Pune, India, in November 2011. The 58 revised full papers, 67 revised short papers, and 32 poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 483 initial submissions. The papers are contributed by innovative academics and industrial experts in the field of computer science, information technology, computational engineering, mobile communication and security and offer a stage to a common forum, where a constructive dialog on theoretical concepts, practical ideas and results of the state of the art can be developed.