• DocumentCode
    655489
  • Title

    Accelerating short transfers in 802.11 networks

  • Author

    Arcia-Moret, Andres ; Montavont, Nicolas ; Castignani, German

  • Author_Institution
    T/ICT4D Lab., Int. Centre for Theor. Phys. (ICTP), Italy
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    13-15 Nov. 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    The legacy bandwidth discovery phase of TCP spends an unnecessary number of RTTs for reaching the fair share of the network. In this article we introduce a simple modification at the receiver that splits the TCP ACKs in a controlled manner. This mechanism allows to fast ramp-up the TCP congestion window. Our experiments performed in a real testbed show benefits not only in the increased data throughput but also in a non-congested uplink (Acknowledgement) path in an 802.11 access.
  • Keywords
    radio receivers; telecommunication standards; transport protocols; wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11 networks; TCP ACK; TCP congestion window; data throughput; legacy bandwidth discovery phase; noncongested uplink path; short transfers; Acceleration; Bandwidth; Handover; IEEE 802.11 Standards; Throughput; Uplink;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Wireless Days (WD), 2013 IFIP
  • Conference_Location
    Valencia
  • ISSN
    2156-9711
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/WD.2013.6686493
  • Filename
    6686493