Novel Fastest Retransmission and Rate Control Schemes for Improving TCP Performance in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

作者：Jung Sungkwan; Lee Jeongman^*; Lee Gangminh; Pyun Sung Yeop; Cho Dong Ho

来源：Wireless Personal Communications, 2014, 75(1): 557-567.

DOI：10.1007/s11277-013-1376-5

• Wireless ad hoc network
• Transmission control protocol
• Fast retransmission
• Rate control
• Wireless multi-hop networks

A number of different authors have considered the problem of performance degradation of transmission control protocol (TCP) in wireless ad hoc networks. We herein show that pauses in packet transmission due to packet losses are the fundamental cause of performance degradation of TCP in wireless ad hoc networks. To minimize the duration of packet transmission pauses, we propose a fast retransmission scheme for improving TCP performance in consideration of the inter-operability of previously deployed TCPs in wireless ad hoc networks. We also propose an additional rate control scheme for TCPs to reduce the probability of packet contention. Using OPNET and NS2 simulations, we show that our proposed schemes can provide a much better performance than conventional TCPs.

• 出版日期2014-3