Improving the Distributed Fair Congestion Avoidance Protocol for Home Area Networks with Internet Access Links

Author

Bok, P-B. ; Kohls, K. ; Dunhaupt, S. ; Tuchelmann, Y.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Inf. Sci., Ruhr-Univ. Bochum, Bochum, Germany

fYear

2012

fDate

July 30 2012-Aug. 2 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

If network congestion occurs, packets cannot be delivered timely, the data rate decreases significantly and the required level of QoS cannot be achieved for all nodes. Especially in Home Area Networks (HANs) with limited uplink bandwidth for internet access, congestion is a major problem. Different approaches for congestion aware link sharing and QoS provisioning exist. Also the Distributed Fair Congestion Avoidance Protocol has been proposed for this purpose, but has to be modified to work efficient in HANs. In this paper, we present an enhanced version of the former proposed DiFCAP protocol which works proactive and independent of the congestion handling capabilities of Transport Layer protocols.

Keywords

Internet; distributed processing; home networks; quality of service; telecommunication congestion control; telecommunication links; transport protocols; DiFCAP protocol; HAN; Internet access links; QoS provisioning; congestion aware link sharing; distributed fair congestion avoidance protocol; home area networks; limited uplink bandwidth; transport layer protocols; Bandwidth; Delay; Estimation; Multimedia communication; Protocols; Quality of service; Streaming media;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), 2012 21st International Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1543-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCCN.2012.6289223

Filename

6289223