DocumentCode
1718996
Title
Performance of TCP with Directional Antennas
Author
Cheekiralla, Sivaram ; Engels, Daniel W.
Author_Institution
Auto-ID Lab., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA
fYear
2006
Firstpage
569
Lastpage
570
Abstract
Transport control protocol (TCP) is the most widely used transport protocol in the Internet. However, there are several performance issues related to TCP when used in wireless ad hoc networks. We compare the performance of TCP flows with directional and omni-directional antennas. We find that directional antennas improve TCP throughput up to 115% and reduce the MAC layer losses by 200%
Keywords
ad hoc networks; directive antennas; performance evaluation; radio networks; transport protocols; directional antenna; omnidirectional antenna; performance issues; transport control protocol; wireless ad hoc networks; Ad hoc networks; Directional antennas; Directive antennas; Internet; Media Access Protocol; Mobile ad hoc networks; Routing protocols; Throughput; Transport protocols; Wireless networks; TCP; directional antennas; wireless ad hoc networks;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Local Computer Networks, Proceedings 2006 31st IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location
Tampa, FL
ISSN
0742-1303
Print_ISBN
1-4244-0418-5
Electronic_ISBN
0742-1303
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/LCN.2006.322015
Filename
4116620
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