A cross layer approach for improving TCP performance using channel access information

Author

Rani, S. V. Jansi ; Narayanasamy, P. ; Shiny, J. John

Author_Institution

Comput. Sci. & Eng. Dept, SSN Coll. of Eng., Chennai, India

fYear

2013

fDate

3-5 April 2013

Firstpage

587

Lastpage

591

Abstract

Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), is a transport layer protocol mainly designed to work well in wired networks. However, TCP suffers from performance degradation in wireless environment due to the characteristics specific to the wireless networks. TCP misinterprets the wireless loss as congestion loss. TCP in heterogeneous networks fails to distinguish wireless loss from congestion and collision losses. In this paper, a cross-layer approach is proposed which surpass the channel access information to transport layer for improving the performance of TCP in heterogeneous environment.

Keywords

radio networks; telecommunication congestion control; transport protocols; TCP performance; channel access information; collision losses; congestion loss; cross layer approach; cross-layer approach; heterogeneous networks; transport layer protocol; wired networks; wireless environment; wireless loss; wireless networks; Base stations; Cross layer design; Error analysis; Protocols; Receivers; Wireless networks; Channel access information; Cross layer approach; TCP; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications and Signal Processing (ICCSP), 2013 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Melmaruvathur

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4865-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/iccsp.2013.6577122

Filename

6577122