On TCP performance enhancing proxies in a wireless environment

Author

Ivanovich, Milosh ; Bickerdike, Philip W. ; Li, Jonathan C.

Author_Institution

Telstra Corp., Melbourne, VIC

Volume

46

Issue

9

fYear

2008

fDate

9/1/2008 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

76

Lastpage

83

Abstract

TCP performance enhancement in wireless access networks is an important ongoing area of research. It is known that the hostile nature of the wireless channel and the mobile nature of wireless users interact adversely with standard TCP congestion control mechanisms [1], causing a drastic reduction in throughput. This article surveys a selection of different approaches to managing TCP performance over wireless links, and presents the results of simulation and field trial results of a novel TCP performance enhancing proxy over diverse cellular radio access technologies based on the GSM, cdma2000, and UMTS standards. The proposed TRL TCP performance enhancing proxy has the advantages of being completely transparent to both TCP endpoints and tunable to different access technologies, and frequently achieves the maximum throughput available from any of the studied radio access technologies.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; cellular radio; code division multiple access; radio access networks; telecommunication congestion control; telecommunication links; transport protocols; wireless channels; GSM; TCP congestion control mechanisms; TCP performance enhancement; TCP performance enhancing proxy; UMTS standards; cdma2000; cellular radio access technology; wireless access networks; wireless channel; wireless environment; wireless links; Bandwidth; Cross layer design; Delay effects; Internet; Propagation losses; Telecommunication traffic; Throughput; Traffic control; Wireless application protocol; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0163-6804

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MCOM.2008.4623710

Filename

4623710