Title :
Cooperative transmission scheme between PLC and WLAN to improve TCP performance
Author :
Muniz, Adriano ; Tsukamoto, Kazuya ; Kawahara, Kenji ; Tsuru, Masato ; Oie, Yuji
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Electron., Kyushu Inst. of Technol., Iizuka, Japan
Abstract :
In-home networking based on Wireless LAN (WLAN) or Power Line Communication (PLC) provides convenience and mobility to the users because in both technologies there is no need to rewire a house. However, both PLC and WLAN suffer from different performance degradation problems due to their different communication media. This paper provides a cooperative transmission scheme between PLC and WLAN, which dynamically changes the communication media when either one of them becomes unfeasible, in order to improve the TCP performance when only PLC is employed. We showed through simulations that the proposed scheme effectively works by considerably improving the TCP throughput.
Keywords :
carrier transmission on power lines; cooperative communication; home networks; transport protocols; wireless LAN; PLC; TCP throughput; WLAN; communication media; cooperative transmission scheme; in-home networking; performance improvement; power line communication; wireless LAN; Delays; Fluorescence; Media; Modems; Receivers; Throughput; Wireless LAN; Cooperative transmission scheme; PLC; TCP throughput; WLAN;
Conference_Titel :
Communications, Computers and Signal Processing (PACRIM), 2013 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on
Conference_Location :
Victoria, BC
DOI :
10.1109/PACRIM.2013.6625464
