Improving end-to-end throughput of Mobile IP using SCTP

Author

Fu, Shaojian ; Atiquzzaman, Mohammed

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci., Oklahoma Univ., USA

fYear

2003

fDate

24-27 June 2003

Firstpage

171

Lastpage

176

Abstract

Mobile IP is the IETF-proposed standard to offer seamless mobile computing. A new transport layer protocol, called stream control transmission protocol (SCTP), has recently been accepted by IETF as a proposed standard to address a number of TCP limitations. Most of the previous research on end-to-end throughput over Mobile IP has been carried out on TCP-Reno. Both TCP and SCTP can use selective acknowledgment (SACK) for error recovery. The effect of SCTP on the improvement of throughput during handovers in Mobile IP is analyzed. We show that SCTP has a better performance than TCP-Reno and TCP-SACK due to its support for unlimited number of SACK blocks. We conclude that SCTP can be used to improve the end-to-end throughput when the bottleneck link bandwidth is low.

Keywords

IP networks; error correction; mobile computing; mobile radio; telecommunication standards; transport protocols; IETF-proposed standard; Mobile IP; SACK; SCTP; TCP-Reno; bottleneck link bandwidth; end-to-end throughput; error recovery; handovers; mobile computing; selective acknowledgment; stream control transmission protocol; transport layer protocol; Computer science; Data communication; Mobile computing; Multicast protocols; Propagation losses; TCPIP; Telecommunication computing; Telecommunication control; Throughput; Transport protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High Performance Switching and Routing, 2003, HPSR. Workshop on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7710-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HPSR.2003.1226700

Filename

1226700