Improving TCP performance over multi-slot GSM

Author

Liew, Joshua S A ; Ang, C.W. ; Ho, K.F.

Author_Institution

Centre for Wireless Commun., Singapore

Volume

1

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

329

Abstract

In this paper, we examine the effects of TCP over a multi-slot GSM testbed as well as improving the performance of TCP using a smart link-level retransmission scheme. The smart link-level retransmission scheme (also known as the snoop protocol (Balakrishnan et al. 1995)), which was developed at the University of California in Berkeley, was designed to reduce the number of duplicate acknowledgements from returning to the sender by performing local retransmissions of the lost packets from the cache of TCP packets at the base station before the TCP timeout expires. We conclude with simulated results conducted on the multi-slot GSM and WaveLAN testbeds and found some differences between the testbeds

Keywords

cellular radio; digital radio; transport protocols; wireless LAN; TCP performance; WaveLAN; base station; duplicate acknowledgements; local retransmissions; lost packets; multi-slot GSM; performance; smart link-level retransmission scheme; snoop protocol; Base stations; Circuit testing; Fading; GSM; Interference; Protocols; System testing; TCPIP; Web and internet services; Wideband;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 1999. ICC '99. 1999 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5284-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.1999.767955

Filename

767955