Discriminating congestion losses from wireless losses using inter-arrival times at the receiver

Author

Biaz, Saad ; Vaidya, Nitin H.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, USA

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

10

Lastpage

17

Abstract

We present a simple scheme which enables a TCP receiver to distinguish congestion losses from corruption losses. The scheme works in the case where the last hop to the receiver is a wireless link and has the smallest bandwidth among all links on the connection path. We added our mechanism to TCP-Reno to evaluate the performance improvement. We compared our scheme against Ideal TCP-Reno which is TCP-Reno that can perfectly (but artificially) distinguish between congestion losses and wireless transmission losses. Under favourable conditions, our scheme performs similar to Ideal TCP-Reno and can lead to significant throughput improvement

Keywords

Internet; telecommunication congestion control; transport protocols; wireless LAN; Ideal TCP-Reno; Internet; TCP receiver; TCP-Reno; bandwidth; congestion loss discrimination; connection path; corruption losses; inter-arrival times; performance improvement; throughput improvement; wireless link; wireless losses; Bandwidth; Computer science; Electrical capacitance tomography; Electronic switching systems; Internet; Postal services; Propagation losses; Read only memory; Throughput; Wireless application protocol;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Application-Specific Systems and Software Engineering and Technology, 1999. ASSET '99. Proceedings. 1999 IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Richardson, TX

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0122-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ASSET.1999.756746

Filename

756746