TCP over 2.5G and 3G wireless networks

Author

Zhang, Dongmei ; Zhang, Runtong ; Kan, Zhigang ; Cuny, Renaud ; Ruutu, Jussi ; Ma, Jian

Author_Institution

R&D Center, Nokia China, China

Volume

2

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

145

Abstract

Transmission control protocol (TCP) by IETF is one of the most widely used transport layer protocols in Internet. Much development and deployment activity has centered around GPRS, UMTS and IMT-2000, also referred to 2.5G/3G wireless networks. However, TCP has not been designed bearing in mind wireless networks. Especially, flow control features can perform less than optimally over wireless interfaces. A number of TCP optimization techniques have been studied to enhance the TCP performance for various wireless environments. This paper proposes a profile of such techniques, particularly effective for to 2.5G/3G wireless networks

Keywords

Internet; cellular radio; optimisation; telecommunication control; transport protocols; 2.5G wireless networks; 2.5G/3G wireless networks; 3G wireless networks; GPRS; IMT-2000; Internet; TCP; UMTS; flow control features; optimization techniques; transmission control protocol; transport layer protocols; 3G mobile communication; Bit error rate; Communication system traffic control; Interference; Internet; Optimal control; Optimization methods; Transport protocols; Wireless application protocol; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Info-tech and Info-net, 2001. Proceedings. ICII 2001 - Beijing. 2001 International Conferences on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7010-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICII.2001.983568

Filename

983568