TCP-SMART: a technique for improving TCP performance in a spotty wide band environment

Author

Elaoud, Moncef ; Han, Parameswaran Ramanat

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Wisconsin Univ., Madison, WI, USA

Volume

3

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

1783

Abstract

We describe a scheme called TCP-SMART to improve the end-to-end throughput of TCP connections in the spotty wide band environment. In this scheme, a TCP-SMART agent at the base station uses local retransmissions, acknowledgment filtering, and selective generation of duplicate acknowledgments to increase the TCP throughput despite extended periods of poor channel conditions and short disconnections. When compared to other schemes, TCP-SMART achieves higher end-to-end TCP throughput

Keywords

broadband networks; digital simulation; land mobile radio; radio networks; software agents; transport protocols; Infostation; TCP connections; TCP performance improvement; TCP-SMART; TCP-SMART agent; acknowledgment filtering; base station; duplicate acknowledgments; end-to-end throughput; local retransmissions; mobile host; poor channel conditions; selective generation; short disconnections; simulation results; spotty wide band environment; wireless link; Airports; Bandwidth; Base stations; Bit error rate; Degradation; Filtering; Road transportation; Throughput; Transport protocols; Wideband;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 2000. ICC 2000. 2000 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

New Orleans, LA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6283-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.2000.853814

Filename

853814