On TCP performance in a heterogeneous network: a survey

Author

Barakat, Chadi ; Altman, Eitan ; Dabbous, Walid

Author_Institution

INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France

Volume

38

Issue

1

fYear

2000

fDate

1/1/2000 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

40

Lastpage

46

Abstract

Transmission media carrying Internet traffic present a wide range of characteristics, some of which, such as transmission errors, long end-to-end delay, and bandwidth asymmetry, may cause a degradation of the TCP performance. Many works have studied the performance of TCP over these media, most of which focus on a particular network type. In this work we study TCP performance independent of the type of network by considering the different possible characteristics of the connection path. We present the problems and the different proposed solutions. This study permits us to understand the limitations of the actual solutions and the required modifications to let TCP cope with a heterogeneous Internet on an end-to-end basis

Keywords

Internet; delays; performance evaluation; telecommunication traffic; transport protocols; Internet traffic; TCP performance; bandwidth asymmetry; bandwidth-delay product; connection path; heterogeneous Internet; heterogeneous network; long end-to-end delay; noncongestion losses; survey; transmission errors; transmission media; Bandwidth; IP networks; Intelligent networks; Optical fiber networks; Protocols; Satellites; TCPIP; Telecommunication traffic; Web and internet services; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0163-6804

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/35.815451

Filename

815451