An implementation of ROHC for TCP/IPv6

Author

Giouroukos, N. ; Orphanos, G.

Author_Institution

INTRACOM S.A., Greece

fYear

2004

fDate

31 May-3 June 2004

Firstpage

16

Lastpage

19

Abstract

Nowadays, we witness the rapid deployment of networks based on WLAN technologies either in indoor or outdoor configurations. However, wireless links exhibit varying delivery rates, asymmetry, and packet loss, even if fixed deployments are considered. It is well-known that such a link behavior impacts severely the performance of Internet protocols. This paper discusses an implementation of header compression algorithm and protocol for TCP/IPv6 transport over wireless links of slow or medium speed. Our implementation complies to the underway standardization work in the IETF ROHC working group. ROHC TCP reduces the size of TCP/IPv6 headers, thus yielding spatial efficiency, while at the same time, being robust against the packet loss of the wireless link.

Keywords

IP networks; radio links; radio networks; transport protocols; IPv6; Internet protocols; ROHC; TCP; WLAN technologies; header compression algorithm; indoor configurations; outdoor configurations; wireless links; Compression algorithms; Encoding; Forward error correction; Internet; Robustness; Routing protocols; Spread spectrum communication; Transport protocols; Wireless application protocol; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks, 2004 International Workshop on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8275-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IWWAN.2004.1525534

Filename

1525534