Title :
Performance of TCP with Directional Antennas
Author :
Cheekiralla, Sivaram ; Engels, Daniel W.
Author_Institution :
Auto-ID Lab., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA
Abstract :
Transport control protocol (TCP) is the most widely used transport protocol in the Internet. However, there are several performance issues related to TCP when used in wireless ad hoc networks. We compare the performance of TCP flows with directional and omni-directional antennas. We find that directional antennas improve TCP throughput up to 115% and reduce the MAC layer losses by 200%
Keywords :
ad hoc networks; directive antennas; performance evaluation; radio networks; transport protocols; directional antenna; omnidirectional antenna; performance issues; transport control protocol; wireless ad hoc networks; Ad hoc networks; Directional antennas; Directive antennas; Internet; Media Access Protocol; Mobile ad hoc networks; Routing protocols; Throughput; Transport protocols; Wireless networks; TCP; directional antennas; wireless ad hoc networks;
Conference_Titel :
Local Computer Networks, Proceedings 2006 31st IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Tampa, FL
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0418-5
Electronic_ISBN :
0742-1303
DOI :
10.1109/LCN.2006.322015
