Design and implementation of a TCP-friendly transport protocol for ad hoc wireless networks

Author

Fu, Zhenghua ; Greenstein, Benjamin ; Meng, Xiaoqiao ; Lu, Songwu

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., California Univ., Los Angeles, CA, USA

fYear

2002

fDate

12-15 Nov. 2002

Firstpage

216

Lastpage

225

Abstract

Transport protocol design for mobile ad hoc networks is challenging because of unique issues, including mobility-induced disconnection, reconnection, and high out-of-order delivery ratios; channel errors; and network congestion. We describe the design and implementation of a TCP-friendly transport protocol for ad hoc networks. Our key design novelty is to perform multi-metric joint identification for packet and connection behaviors based on end-to-end measurements. Our testbed measurements and ns-2 simulations show a significant performance improvement over standard TCP in ad hoc networks.

Keywords

ad hoc networks; digital simulation; land mobile radio; performance evaluation; transport protocols; Linux implementation; TCP-friendly transport protocol; ad hoc wireless networks; channel errors; connection behavior; end-to-end measurements; mobile ad hoc networks; mobile computing; mobility-induced disconnection; mobility-induced reconnection; multi-metric joint identification; network congestion; ns-2 simulations; out-of-order delivery ratios; packet behavior; testbed measurements; transport protocol design; transport protocol implementation; Acoustic noise; Ad hoc networks; Computer science; Event detection; Internet; Mobile ad hoc networks; Mobile computing; Out of order; Transport protocols; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Network Protocols, 2002. Proceedings. 10th IEEE International Conference on

ISSN

1092-1648

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1856-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICNP.2002.1181409

Filename

1181409