Evaluation of TCP performance over mobile IP wired-cum-wireless networks

Author

Nashiry, Md Asif ; Abdullah-Al-Mahmud, Md ; Rahman, Md Mahbubur ; Anjum, Md Nashid

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. & Commun. Eng., Islamic Univ., Kushtia

fYear

2008

fDate

24-27 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

150

Lastpage

155

Abstract

Mobility of user devices connecting to the Internet is of major interest in today´s research in networking. For users as well as for applications, network mobility should be transparent. Reliable transport protocols like TCP has served well the wired Internet where the packet losses are mainly due to congestion, but is not ready for mobile IP wired-cum-wireless environments where the significant packet losses are due to bit errors and handoffs. In this paper, we have investigated the performance of TCP among the various TCP variants. We have observed both TCP senders (Newreno & Vegas) and TCP receivers (Base & Delayed-Ack). Using ns-2, we have evaluated the TCP throughput and packet delay over a single TCP connection. The simulation results suggest that a particular combination (one TCP sender with one TCP receiver) of TCP shows the best result in such mobile IP networks.

Keywords

IP networks; Internet; mobile computing; performance evaluation; transport protocols; Internet; TCP performance; TCP receivers; TCP senders; mobile IP wired-cum-wireless networks; ns-2; transport protocols; Bit error rate; Computer networks; Degradation; Delay; IP networks; Internet; Mobile communication; TCPIP; Transport protocols; Wireless networks; Handoff; Mobile IP; Mobility; TCP; Wired-cum-Wireless Networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer and Information Technology, 2008. ICCIT 2008. 11th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Khulna

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2135-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2136-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCITECHN.2008.4803100

Filename

4803100