SCTP congestion control performance in wireless multi-hop networks

Author

Ye, Guanhua ; Saadawi, Tarek ; Lee, Myung

Author_Institution

Graduate Center, City Univ. of New York, NY, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2002

fDate

7-10 Oct. 2002

Firstpage

934

Abstract

The Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is originally designed for signaling transport over IP-based networks in the Signaling Transport (SIGTRAN) group of IETF and it has the potential to be an alternative transport protocol that may be better able to satisfy the requirements of future battlefield network than traditional protocols, TCP and UDP. SCTP performance over IEEE 802.11 is being evaluated in this paper. The impact of various IEEE 802.11 parameters on SCTP congestion control parameters is simulated and their effect on throughput as well as its performance is studied. Further more, a new algorithm is proposed to overcome the "small window syndrome" resulting from the MAC layer when the SCTP receiver side window is small. Simulation results demonstrate that SCTP performance is improved using this new algorithm.

Keywords

military communication; performance evaluation; radio networks; telecommunication congestion control; transport protocols; wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11 parameters; IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN protocol; IETF; IP-based networks; MAC layer; SCTP congestion control; SCTP congestion control performance; SCTP receiver side window; Stream Control Transmission Protocol; TCP; UDP; battlefield network; signaling transport; simulation results; small window syndrome; throughput; transport protocol; wireless multi-hop networks; Cities and towns; Educational institutions; Intelligent networks; Internet; Performance evaluation; Signal design; Space technology; Spread spectrum communication; Throughput; Transport protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

MILCOM 2002. Proceedings

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7625-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.2002.1179600

Filename

1179600