Evaluation for TCP with delayed ACK option in wireless multi-hop networks

Author

Xu, Shugong ; Saadawi, Tarek

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., City Coll. of New York, NY, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2001

fDate

6/23/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

267

Abstract

In multi-hop wireless networks, the TCP data packet stream has to compete for limited bandwidth with its ACK stream. In this paper, we investigate and evaluate the performance of several prevalent TCP algorithms using the delayed acknowledgment (DA) option defined in IETF RFC 1122, which allows the TCP receiver to transmit an ACK for every two incoming packets. After extensively comparing the existing TCP versions (including Tahoe, Reno, New Reno, Sack and Vegas) by simulation, we show that with the DA option, the TCP connection can gain 15-32% output improvement. We strongly recommend using the DA option in TCP applications in wireless multi-hop networks.

Keywords

packet radio networks; transport protocols; wireless LAN; DA option; IETF RFC 1122; New Reno; Reno; Sack; TCP receiver; Tahoe; Vegas; WLAN; data packet stream; delayed ACK option; delayed acknowledgment option; wireless LAN; wireless multi-hop networks; Bandwidth; Cities and towns; Delay; Government; Intelligent networks; Protection; Redundancy; Routing protocols; Spread spectrum communication; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2001. VTC 2001 Fall. IEEE VTS 54th

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7005-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VTC.2001.956599

Filename

956599